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| Main Entry: | assignment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility, task |
| Synonyms: | appointment, beat, charge, chore, commission, drill, duty, job, mission, position, post, practice, stint, homework |
| Main Entry: | assignment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | selecting or setting apart |
| Synonyms: | allocation, allotment, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, assignation, authorization, choice, consignment, delegation, designation, determination, distribution, giving, grant, nomination, selection, specification, stipulation, ascription, attribution |
| Antonyms: | keeping |
| Main Entry: | chore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | task |
| Synonyms: | assignment, burden, duty, effort, errand, grind, housework, job, routine, stint, trial, tribulation, workout, KP, devoir, scutwork |
| Main Entry: | classification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | categorization |
| Synonyms: | allocation, allotment, analysis, apportionment, arrangement, assignment, assortment, consignment, denomination, department, designation, disposal, disposition, distribution, division, echelon, gradation, grade, graduation, group, kind, order, ordination, organization, regulation, alloting, cataloguing, categorizing, codification, collocation, coordination, distributing, grading, grouping, ordering, pigeonholing, sizing, sorting, systematization, tabulating, taxonomy, typecasting |
| Main Entry: | errand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | task |
| Synonyms: | assignment, charge, commission, duty, job, message, mission |
| Notes: | an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly |
| Main Entry: | hypothesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, assignment, assumption, axiom, basis, belief, conclusion, condition, conjecture, data, deduction, demonstration, derivation, explanation, foundation, ground, guess, inference, interpretation, layout, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, principle, proposal, proposition, rationale, reason, scheme, shot in the dark*, speculation, suggestion, supposition, surmise, system, term, theorem, thesis, apriority, attribution, lemma, presupposition, starting point, tentative law |
| Antonyms: | measurement, proof, reality, truth, calcualtion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's task, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | aim, assignment, business, calling, charge, commission, duty, end, errand, goal, job, lifework, object, objective, office, operation, profession, purpose, pursuit, quest, sortie, trade, trust, undertaking, vocation, work |
| Main Entry: | project |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undertaking, work |
| Synonyms: | activity, adventure, affair, aim, assignment, baby*, blueprint*, business, concern, deal, design, enterprise, exploit, feat, game plan, intention, job, matter, occupation, outline, pet*, plan, program, proposal, proposition, scheme, setup, strategy, task, thing*, venture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quota |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | portion allotted to something |
| Synonyms: | allocation, allotment, allowance, apportionment, assignment, bite, chunk, cut, division, end, lot, measure, part, percentage, piece, proportion, quantum, ration, share, slice, split, divvy, meed, partage, piece of action |
| Main Entry: | ration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allotment of limited supply |
| Synonyms: | allowance, apportionment, assignment, bit, consignment, cut, distribution, division, dole, drag, food, helping, measure, part, portion, provender, provision, quantum, quota, share, store, supply, meed, piece of action |
| Antonyms: | whole |
| Main Entry: | stint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | assignment, bit, chore, consignment, duty, job, participation, quota, share, shift, spell, stretch, task, term, time, tour, turn, work |
| Main Entry: | task |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | job or chore, often assigned |
| Synonyms: | assignment, bother, burden, business, calling, charge, daily grind, duty, effort, employment, enterprise, errand, exercise, function, gig*, grind*, headache*, labor, load, millstone*, mission, nuisance, occupation, office, onus, pain, project, province, responsibility, stint, strain, tax, toil, trouble, undertaking, vocation, work, deadweight, fun and games, grindstone, long row to hoe |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun, pastime |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | transfer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change of possession |
| Synonyms: | alteration, assignment, deportation, move, removal, shift, substitution, translation, transmission, variation, conduction, convection, displacement, relegation, relocation, transference, transmittal, transposition |
| Antonyms: | hold, keeping |
| Main Entry: | line of duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duties and responsibilities |
| Synonyms: | assignment, call of duty, workload |
| 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, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking, hap, office function |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appropriation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, setting aside |
| Synonyms: | allotment, allowance, apportionment, assignment, concession, donation, giving, grant, provision, stipend, stipulation, subsidy, budgeting, earmarking, endowing, funding, setting apart, sponsoring |
| Antonyms: | keeping, refusal, rejection |
| Main Entry: | consignment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entrusting, handing over |
| Synonyms: | assignment, dispatch, distribution, committal, relegation, sending shipment, transmittal |
| Antonyms: | keeping, retention, holding |
| Main Entry: | drill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice, exercise |
| Synonyms: | assignment, call, constitutional, daily dozen*, discipline, dress, dry run*, instruction, marching, preparation, repetition, shakedown*, training, tryout, workout, conditioning, drilling, gym, homework, learning by doing, maneuvers, run-through, warm-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | employment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working for a living; |
| Synonyms: | assignment, avocation, business, calling, craft, employ, engaging, enlistment, enrollment, exercise, exertion, field, function, game*, hire, job, line, métier, mission, number, occupation, occupying, office, position, post, profession, pursuit, racket*, retaining, service, setup, situation, thing*, trade, using, vocation, work, awarding, carrying, commissioning, contracting, engagement in activity application, exercising, hiring, recruitment, servicing, signing on, taking on, what one is into |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inactivity, unemployment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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