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The phrase "assignment to a work" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to refer to a task or project assigned to someone, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The assignment to a work project was given to the new intern last week."
Alternatives: "assignment to a task" or "assignment to a project".
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BMW of North America completed a closely watched review of its creative advertising work by awarding a plum assignment to an agency that already works for the company.
Heredia, who has a 6.96 earned run average in 34 games, accepted an outright assignment to Class A Tampa to work with the Yankees' pitching specialist, Billy Connors.
A client, HealthLink, a small hmo, merged in 1995 with RightChoice, a Blues plan, and she was given the assignment to work out a settlement involving claims that RightChoice had benefited from its parent company, a nonprofit, to the detriment of taxpayers.
To avert the first layoffs of teachers since the financial crises of the 1970s, the union agreed to suspend sabbaticals for a year and to allow teachers without a permanent assignment to work as substitutes in the classroom, possibly in a different school every week, for savings that add up to $60 million.
Granville was "politically naïve": "An opportunist, keen on action, who fell in with whichever personal contact would give her an assignment to work for the freedom of her country".
Following that Yankee blowout, Jones accepted a minor league assignment to work on his repertoire, and several weeks later he came back a changed pitcher.
He desperately wanted the assignment to work.
MarieDB, New York: When I was in a Catholic boarding school, age about 15 or 16, in the repressive early 1950s, we were given an assignment to write a paper on the works of a Catholic writer.
Y&R and Mediaedge:cia take over from units of the McCann Worldgroup in San Francisco, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, which resigned their A.M.D. assignments to work for a rival, Intel.
Not answering every email right away or waiting to finish a work assignment that's less pressing or skipping out on those after-work drinks once in awhile is not the end of the world.
According to the 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey, 70% of millennials believe their personal values are shared by the organizations they work for, while nearly half chose not to undertake a work assignment because it went against their personal values or ethics.
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