duty assignment
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈduːti əˈsaɪnmənt/
- Jargon
:
asignación de deber
- Each member of the team will have a specific duty assignment during the upcoming mission.
- light-duty assignment
Examples
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Coleman, Howe, you'll have new duty assignments this week.
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You know, you could request a duty assignment in Germany.
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Use campus duty assignments as a means of developing positive rapport with students, parents, and colleagues.
Academic text (2011) -
He had to go ahead of time and get his duty assignment and housing, and my mom, my older brother, and I were to follow about a month later.
Blog text (16) -
Individuals in sensitive or potentially dangerous duty assignments may be reassigned as a result of such impairment.
Academic text (1992) -
Consistent moves, temporary duty assignments, training exercises, and deployments all have a considerable impact on the stability often required by a child with autism.
Blog text (14) -
The Police Department on Long Island, N.Y., allowed officers to take desk jobs or light-duty assignments when they notified superiors they were pregnant.
Academic text (2006) -
After the training, the soldiers received their new duty assignment at the base in Italy.
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The commanding officer explained the duty assignment to the recruits in detail.
Synonyms
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2.8
An important task or a group sent by an organization to do it
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1.2
A piece of work given by a teacher or boss
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6.6
A group of people given a specific task
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4.0
A task given to a group of soldiers to reach a clear goal
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly predictable from combining 'duty' (a responsibility) and 'assignment' (a task given); the noun-noun composition simply denotes an assignment that is a duty. This is a literal, compositional phrase following common English and cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Duty assignment comes from old military practice. Commanders gave each soldier a clear duty, such as guarding a post, and an assignment was the order to go there, so the phrase means 'a specific official task or responsibility'.