noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
equitable
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Therefore, this is an equitable assignment which can not be impeached.
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It left the old equitable assignment untouched, and it may be used still.
important
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In understanding assignment it is important to distinguish assignment from novation.
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How important are homework assignments and good grades, really?
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He was actually going to be given an important assignment .
new
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I've just come from the Foreign Office, and you're immediately on a new assignment .
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In 1990, his moral and political ammunition spent, Green was ushered out the door into a new assignment .
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In the tsar's view, the new assignment was much more important than the one Paskevich had just completed.
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Only by acting would they know what their new assignment entailed.
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Admiral Nagumo received word of his new assignment as he headed back from the futile sortie toward the Marshalls.
special
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Internal auditors may also carry out special assignments on behalf of the management, looking at a wide range of business matters.
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She was respectfully requested to keep the fact he is on special assignment to herself and her immediate family.
tough
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It was a tough assignment for two reasons.
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He was an outstanding fighter pilot who proved his mettle in a variety of tough assignments , including two wars.
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Few, if any, committees can have faced a tougher assignment .
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He gave me tough assignments from the start-showed confidence in me, which helped me have confidence in myself.
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Ferguson salvaged at least a point from another tough assignment , the first of the season at the third attempt.
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Sri Lanka had been a tough assignment .
■ NOUN
homework
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Here, the therapist is looking for maladaptive coping strategies which can be altered at a later date in homework assignments .
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How important are homework assignments and good grades, really?
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At the beginning of each session review homework assignments .
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Specifically, it often meant not permitting Louisa to escape from lengthy homework assignments that involved a lot of writing.
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The homework assignment involves setting a task that they would not normally do.
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You know kids who always do their schoolwork and kids who hardly ever do their class and homework assignments .
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The interviewer is looking for a relapsed sport or hobby which can be restarted and used as behavioural tasks in homework assignments .
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This problem manifests itself when a student forgets to bring home her books or remembers the books but forgets the homework assignments .
school
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In the most severe cases, work-inhibited children may be so inept that any school assignment is overwhelming.
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This is especially important for work-inhibited children, who are typically overly dependent upon the support of others to complete school assignments .
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One day one brings home a school assignment .
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If only Sean could manage to complete his school assignments , they thought, everything would be all right.
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The first step is to collect solid data that define which students have difficulty completing school assignments .
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In contrast to students who are able to complete school assignments , work-inhibited students feel significantly less approval from their family.
work
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They went from house to house and signed up all able-bodied adults for work assignments .
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Unfortunate Timing Initial confusion surrounding work assignments resulted in part from unfortunate timing.
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Overburdened support personnel rushed from one temporary work assignment to another, their ranks dangerously depleted by a recent company-wide restructuring.
■ VERB
carry
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The students attend the school for four sessions at the beginning of the summer term, to carry out their assignment .
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Tonight he was having trouble carrying out his first assignment , and some difficulty delivering his head out beyond the doors.
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Internal auditors may also carry out special assignments on behalf of the management, looking at a wide range of business matters.
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All fee quotations exclude Value Added Tax and any outlays that we may incur whilst carrying our assignments .
complete
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Centre devised Programme Regulations should set out clearly policy on reassessment of students who fail or fail to complete assignments .
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Of the work-inhibited students, is it possible that this attention deficit may be related to their difficulty in completing assignments ?
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In order to qualify for the award of a certificate, the candidate must complete at least 4 assignments successfully.
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And then they will sometimes complete the assignment in fifteen minutes.
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Boredom, isolation and loneliness can lead to alcoholism, marriage breakdowns and a failure to complete the assignment .
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Like many work-inhibited students, Dan often completed in-class assignments that required one-or two-word responses to short questions.
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They walked quickly, as though in a hurry to complete some urgent assignment .
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Imagine a seventh-grade student finally completing a math assignment .
follow
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Enforcement following assignment of the reversion Liability of T towards L2 and vice-versa rests upon a statutory basis.
give
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Activity section of each unit gives practical assignments for pair or group work.
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When the deal was consummated, Smith was given the assignment he coveted-to be in charge of finding new sources of pelts.
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Whatever answer is given on the assignment point, there will be some untidiness within the statute.
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At school, her teacher gives her extra reading assignments so that she can practice.
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He was actually going to be given an important assignment .
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Bonnie invited her input, and gave her the assignment to get things flowing smoothly.
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You may, for example, have been given an assignment to do on the organisation of a business.
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He gave me tough assignments from the start-showed confidence in me, which helped me have confidence in myself.
include
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The Appendix on symmetry includes details of the assignment of atomic orbitals to symmetry species.
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These experiences included assignments such as product coordinator, overseer of sales meetings, trainer of inexperienced salespeople, and task-force member.
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A landlord is bound to include a covenant against assignment and subletting if he wishes to maintain control over the business tenancy.
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Preparation for viewing could include a reading assignment to be completed before the viewing session.
undertake
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Nurses working for agencies may often be telephoned and asked to undertake an assignment that they do not feel very confident about.
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She undertook an assignment to enlist Tsarist support for the Boulangists and then travelled to Ireland.
write
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Topics include listening to lectures, effective reading, discussion skills, writing assignments and examination answers.
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The teacher and parents agreed that the teacher would write out the assignments and send them home with Philip.
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Units comprise discussion, reading, role play, writing assignment , vocabulary building, practice in points of grammar.
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This was her first writing assignment .
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Most were writing up reports between assignments , or busy making arrangements by telephone.
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Producing and writing assignments came regularly now.
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The first writing assignment that they passed in emphasized what many of those children were thinking and feeling.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plum job/role/assignment etc
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For me, it was a plum assignment.
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He took over the £60,000-a-year plum job only three weeks ago.
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The good news was he had landed a plum job on the mortgage trading desk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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'I figure this will either make or break us,' Cheyne said of the 1-year assignment to get the camp up and running.
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a homework assignment
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Bart's first assignment for the newspaper was to report on the French elections.
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Half the workers were given different assignments.
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I eventually got a teaching assignment at Xibei.
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Robin spent many lunch hours poring over her math assignments.
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She stayed late to complete a class assignment .
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the assignment of chores
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This is a really tough assignment , and I believe you're the only person who can handle it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was supposed to be the leader in this assignment , but how could a man lead going backwards?
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In another surprise, the assignment dilemma troubling the Client Service Center largely disappeared.
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Of the work-inhibited students, is it possible that this attention deficit may be related to their difficulty in completing assignments?
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She landed in a literary publications class at the University of Baltimore, where the assignment was to produce a literary magazine.
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Some students will be highly cooperative and attentive, and will speak up readily regarding the assignment .
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The assignments will include typing of varying difficulty from printed and manuscript copy.
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This would suggest the assignment of one index to derivatives of the verb form and another to those of the noun form.