Collocations withassignment
These are words often used in combination withassignment.
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committee assignment
Thus, we might hypothesize that as the size of a legislature increases, the value of each committee assignment increases because there are fewer of them per member.
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difficult assignment
For the most part, the more delicate and difficult assignment of paternity during this century has fallen upon the courts - long after the birth of the child.
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general assignment
Then there are provisions with regard to general assignment of book debts, which will generally be void unless registered.
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homework assignment
Stimulating appropriate uses of simulation a typical "weekly" homework assignment involving simulation that is simultaneously tractable and nontrivial is nearly impossible.
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individual assignment
Individual assignment test reveals differential restriction to dispersal between two salmonids despite no increase of genetic differences with distance.
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initial assignment
It is not unreasonable to suppose that this substitution process is more difficult when the initial assignment was plausible.
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random assignment
This result has a bearing on the random assignment problem.
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short-term assignment
The first involves recruitment on contract in order to carry out short-term assignments.
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special assignment
A special assignment was allotted to us.
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writing assignment
I was completely clueless how to go about this writing assignment.
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written assignment
However, a fine-grained analysis of the written assignment showed that the experimental students had become more accurate on the nouns whose specific endings were included in the treatment activities.
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