Assignment
Assignment noun - A specific task with which a person or group is charged.
Usage example: the spy team's assignment was to steal the plans for the nuclear reactor
Brief and assignment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Brief" instead a noun "Assignment".
Brief
Brief noun - A specific task with which a person or group is charged.
Usage example: the soldiers' brief was to secure the village from enemy attacks
Assignment and brief are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Assignment" instead a noun "Brief".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Usually, there aren't even scheduled hours to sleep: Your only chance to sleep is during the brief free time, during which you may need to be preparing for your next assignment instead.
Source: Manga / Shokugeki no Soma - During training camp, he seems to be the first one done in an assignment, only to realize after cleaning up that Erina had finished long before him, causing him to stop in (brief) shock.
Source: Manga / Shokugeki no Soma - Their creator turns out to be a beautiful but possibly mad young woman named Arin with whom Khenbish has a brief but torrid encounter before being whisked off to a dangerous assignment on the Mexican border.
Source: Webcomic / After The Dream
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