The phrase "a former assignment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a task or project that was previously given or completed.
Example: "In my report, I will discuss the findings from a former assignment that focused on market trends."
Alternatives: "a previous task" or "an earlier project".
"Harvey has no problem publicly shaming you," a former assignment-desk producer told me.
"This notion that you can't be the reform person in any context if you are from a political family or had a former political assignment, that just defies everything we know," said Mr. Cuomo, citing as an example the politics of Bill Clinton (the "New Democrat").
Michelle Manchir is a former general assignment reporter for the Tribune.
Somervell instead received Reybold's former assignment, with promotion to the temporary rank of major general on January 28 , 1942and was promoted to temporary lieutenant general on March 9 , 1942
On another assignment, a former Observer colleague, Judith Judd, was sent, with Jane, to travel by train from London to Southend.
One Saturday, he and the News' photographer, Robert Sala, returning from an assignment, visit a former colleague named Yeamon who had been fired from the paper.
In 1982, Mr. Milch was offered a script assignment by Jeffrey Lewis, a former roommate at Yale, who was a writer-producer on "Hill Street Blues".
Shinjo, a former outfielder in Japan, was designated for assignment Thursday by the Mets.
While on assignment, he tracks down a former lover, Lena (Cate Blanchett), who is desperate to escape Berlin.
When I told Don Mattingly, a former Yankee who is now a special assignment coach with the Dodgers, what Duncan had said, he smiled.
Elaine Donnelly Livonia, Mich., Aug.19, 2009 The writer, president of the Center for Military Readiness, is a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces.
