general assignment

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meaningsofgeneralandassignment

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general
adjective
uk
/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us
/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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assignment
noun
uk
/əˈsaɪn.mənt/us
/əˈsaɪn.mənt/
a piece of work given to someone, typically as part of their studies ...
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(Definition ofgeneralandassignmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Then there are provisions with regard togeneralassignmentof book debts, which will generally be void unless registered.
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As city editor, he supervised the twogeneralassignmentreporters who covered government, police and courts.
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She started as ageneralassignmentreporter and fill-in anchor, but was promoted and became the weekday morning anchor.
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He eventually worked his way up to becoming ageneralassignmentreporter.
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He is ageneralassignmentreporter and may be seen at news events throughout the world.
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Later, he worked as ageneralassignmentreporter.
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Itsgeneralassignmentwas to place small- and medium size payloads into orbit.
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The station also relies more on photojournalists than its competitors, and as a result, it has fewergeneralassignmentreporters.
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Starting out as ageneralassignmentreporter, she rose to solo weekend evening anchor and eventually became an investigative reporter.
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At the end of the war, she moved back togeneralassignmentreporting but not for long.
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He worked as ageneralassignmentnews reporter/newscaster for the next 18 years.
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She was ageneralassignmentreporter, substitute anchor, then head anchor and reporter for the morning news.
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He then worked as a rewrite man, a frontlinegeneralassignmentreporter, leading feature story writer, war correspondent, in-depth investigative reporter and a foreign correspondent.
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In less than 90 days she was hired as ageneralassignmentreporter.
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He worked his way up the ladder fromgeneralassignmentreporter to local and then national news reporter.
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He covered the city beatseducation, crime, politics andgeneralassignment.
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He was pressed into service as ageneralassignmentreporter on some special occasions.
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It was successfully applied to thegeneralassignmentproblem (in scheduling), processors configuration problem (in electronic design) and a set of radio-link frequency assignment problems (an abstracted military application).
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