English-Portuguese translations for assignment

• atribuição
• cessão
  Importaria sublinhar que a cessão vitalícia sem cláusulas de renovação deixou de ser aceitável, e que existe um preço a pagar pelas empresas discográficas por todo o prolongamento. We should be making it clear that assignment for life without renewal clauses is no longer acceptable, and one of the prices recording companies must pay for any extension.
• designação
• posição
• tarefa
  Amesterdão estabeleceu uma tarefa muito clara. Amsterdam has set a clear assignment.
  Isso significa apenas cinco por cento das tarefas das inspecções. That translates into less than five percent of the inspection assignments.
  Os governos não recomendam os seus candidatos para uma tarefa específica, mas sim para um cargo. Governments do not recommend people for a particular assignment, but for an office.
• trabalho
  Este trabalho foi-me confiado pela Conferência dos Presidentes, com o título que tinha. This assignment with this title was given to me by the Conference of Presidents.
  Visitei recentemente uma escola do meu círculo eleitoral onde os alunos tinham de fazer um trabalho de casa que consistia em desenhar um átomo. Recently I visited a school in my constituency where the pupils were given an assignment which was to go and draw a picture of an atom.
  Desde o início da sua missão, os trabalhadores temporários receberão a mesma remuneração que as pessoas recrutadas directamente pela empresa utilizadora para fazer o mesmo trabalho. From the start of their assignments, temporary workers will receive the same pay as people recruited directly by the user enterprise to do the same job.

Definition of assignment

• The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks
• The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category
• An assigned task
• A position to which someone is assigned
• A task given to students, such as homework or coursework
• A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another
• A document that effects this transfer
• An operation that assigns a value to a variable

Examples

• This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
• We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
• The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
• Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
• Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
• The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
• Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

Related words

• assignment of guilt
• sex reassignment surgery
• gender reassignment
• sex reassignment