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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
assignment
/əˈsaɪnmənt/
noun
A duty that you are give to do (especially in the armed forces)
- “You must listen to your teacher to complete assignments correctly.”Tatoeba
- “He really cut corners when he was completing the assignment.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))