| Main Entry: | assignment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility, task |
Synonyms: |
appointment, beat, charge, chore, commission, drill, duty, homework, job, mission, position, post, practice, stint |
| Main Entry: | assignment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | selecting or setting apart |
Synonyms: |
allocation, allotment, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, ascription, assignation, attribution, authorization, choice, consignment, delegation, designation, determination, distribution, giving, grant, nomination, selection, specification, stipulation |
Antonyms: |
keeping |
| 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 |