assignment

Main Entry:
assignment [uh-sahyn-muhnt]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: responsibility, task
Synonyms: appointment, beat, charge, chore, commission, drill, duty, homework, job, mission, position, post, practice, stint
Main Entry: affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity
Synonyms: assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking
Main Entry: appointment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: arrangement for meeting; prearranged meeting
Synonyms: assignation, assignment, blind date, consultation, date, engagement, errand, gig, interview, invitation, meet, rendezvous, session, tryst, zero hour
Main Entry: appointment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: job, position of responsibility
Synonyms: appointee, assignment, berth, candidate, delegate, employment, nominee, office, officeholder, place, post, representative, situation, station, work
Main Entry: appropriation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: allocation, setting aside
Synonyms: allotment, allowance, apportionment, assignment, budgeting, concession, donation, earmarking, endowing, funding, giving, grant, provision, setting apart, sponsoring, stipend, stipulation, subsidy
Antonyms: keeping, refusal, rejection
Main Entry: business
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal concern
Synonyms: affair, assignment, beeswax, carrying on, duty, function, goings-on, hanky-panky, happening, interest, issue, lookout, matter, palaver, point, problem, question, responsibility, subject, task, topic
Notes: the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry
Main Entry: chore
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: task
Synonyms: KP, assignment, burden, devoir, duty, effort, errand, grind, housework, job, routine, scutwork, stint, trial, tribulation, workout
Main Entry: classification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: categorization
Synonyms: allocation, alloting, allotment, analysis, apportionment, arrangement, assignment, assortment, cataloguing, categorizing, codification, collocation, consignment, coordination, denomination, department, designation, disposal, disposition, distributing, distribution, division, echelon, gradation, grade, grading, graduation, group, grouping, kind, order, ordering, ordination, organization, pigeonholing, regulation, sizing, sorting, systematization, tabulating, taxonomy, typecasting
Main Entry: consignment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: entrusting, handing over
Synonyms: assignment, committal, dispatch, distribution, relegation, sending shipment, transmittal
Antonyms: holding, keeping, retention
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