My 'assignment' was to clean the equipment. = They gave me the 'assignment' of cleaning the equipment.
The article discusses the recent 'assignment' of senators to some of the more powerful committees.
The reporter's 'assignment' is to interview the candidate.
(..) ...and having waited three years just to meet Sandra... ...I knew I couldn't survive being away from her that long. So I took every hazardous assignment I could find... ...with the hope of getting my time down to less than a year. Go! Go! When I was offered a secret mission... (..)2003 Big Fish