The phrase "approved the assignment of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is giving formal consent or authorization for a task or responsibility to be transferred to another party.
Example: "The board approved the assignment of the project to the new team leader."
Alternatives: "authorized the transfer of" or "consented to the delegation of".
Officials said the assessment unit made a recommendation to the Intelligence Division, which approved the assignment of two detectives to Ms. Nathan.
A spokesman for the Department of Communications said that the minister had "approved the assignment of Shell's interest in the Corrib Petroleum Lease to Nephin Energy".
Shortly after the death of Frederic Ives Carpenter, formerly a member of the University of Chicago Department of English, his widow approved the assignment of his bequest of $10,000 to the Department for acquisition of a complete collection of photostatic negatives and positives of manuscripts of the Tales.
Members of the prosecution team noted that Canary approved the assignment of a particular employee to work on the Siegelman case.
Finally Aim-listed New World Oil and Gas climbed 17% to 6p after the government of Belize approved the assignment to the company of an initial 12.5% working interest in the Blue Creek project in the north west of the county.
The court must approve the assignments.
The agency, officials said, approved the choice of contractors for each of the assignments and reviewed the results.
The assignment of a gene symbol to a gene is approved by a nomenclature committee to ensure scientific accuracy.
They received complaints from across the country about the assignment of routes, so the Board made several modifications; the U.S. Highway System was approved in November 1926.
"I don't approve of any behavior that imposes your way of life on others," Mr. Rapaport said, adding that the assignment of a female lifeguard does not do so.
