Examples of “assignment” in a Sentence

noun A task given to someone, especially a piece of schoolwork or a work project.

• The teacher set a short assignment on rivers for us to finish at home.
• She finished her history assignment the night before it was due.
• His new assignment took him to the company's Tokyo office.

noun The legal transfer of a right, property, or benefit from one person to another.

• The bank approved the assignment of the debt to a new owner.
• Both parties signed a written assignment of the patent to the company.
• The assignment of the lease had to be approved by the landlord.