Assignment

Definition

assign /ǝ'saÇn/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth to sb အလုပ္တာဝန္ သတ္မွတ္ ခြဲေဝေပးသည္။ The two large classrooms have been assigned to us. ❍ I was assigned the task of checking all the equipment. ❍ The teacher has assigned each of us a part in the school play. ❍ Factory managers assign work and monitor progress. (ခ) ~ sb to sb/ sth ပုဂၢိဳလ္၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း တစ္ခုခု လက္ေအာက္တြင္ ထားရိွသည္။ I was assigned to B platoon. (ဂ) ~ sb (to sth/ as sth) တာဝန္ ေပးသည္။ ခန္႔အပ္သည္။ They've assigned their best man to the job. ❍ Troops were assigned to protect the visitors. ❍ I was assigned as project manager, with a staff of ten. ၂။ အခ်ိန္ေနရာ စသည္ သတ္မွတ္သည္။ Shall we assign Thursday morning for our weekly meetings? ❍ It is impossible to assign an exact date to this building. ၃။ ~ sth to sb ( law ) လႊဲေျပာင္းသည္။ The agreement assigns copyright to the publisher. ❏ assignment n ၁။ [C] အလုပ္။ တာဝန္။ homework assignments ❍ my current assignment as a government economic adviser ❍ I had set myself a tricky assignment. ❍ She was sent abroad on an assignment for the Sunday Times. ၂။ [U] တာဝန္ေပးအပ္ျခင္း။ ခန္႔အပ္ျခင္း။ her recent assignment to the commission.

Examples

1. [be assigned to something] : Two senior officers were assigned to the investigation.
2. [assign something to someone] : It’s his job to assign tasks to the various members of the team.
3. [be assigned something] : Mountbatten was assigned responsibility for retaking the territory.
4. [be assigned to something] : He was assigned to the company’s branch in Cairo.
5. [be assigned to something] : Tina has been assigned to the intermediate learners’ group.
6. [be assigned something] : I was assigned a car for my personal use.
7. [be assigned something] : The operation was assigned the code name ‘Rita’.
8. I have assigned four hours for recording the data.
9. [be assigned to someone] : All rights shall be assigned to the publisher.