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.
(..) We will discuss current events. We will call this class... ...American History X. We meet once a day. All right, your first assignment is to prepare for me a new paper due tomorrow. Oh, come on. It took me a week to read Mein Kampf. That isn't fair. - What do you want me to do it on? (..)1998 American History X