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on assignment

ADJECTIVE

busy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

active unavailable working

STRONG

buried employed engaged engrossed hustling occupied overloaded persevering slaving snowed swamped

WEAK

already taken assiduous at it diligent having a full plate having enough on one's plate having fish to fry having many irons in the fire in a meeting in conference in someone else's possession in the field in the laboratory industrious on duty on the go tied-up up to one's ears with a customer

Antonyms

STRONGEST

idle

STRONG

inactive unoccupied

WEAK

lazy quiet unbusy unemployed unengaged

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Cameroonian police this week arrested four journalists—including three on assignment for the Associated Press, an American news agency—who entered the compound to interview the migrants, according to the AP and their lawyers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Before spending much of the past year on assignment with the White House Council of Economic Advisers, he had no experience working in a political capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

The company said it was suspending most business trips to the US and directing employees on assignment in the US to return home immediately.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025

Of course, we also wonder if it will also apply to a diplomat overseas, a nonuniformed person working for the federal government on assignment elsewhere.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2025

For the only time in the last few months I had gone out on assignment, actually courted a live body, I had nearly blown cover.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

on assignment

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