Assignment and Issue

Assignment

Assignment noun - A piece of work that needs to be done regularly.

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Issue and assignment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Issue" instead a noun "Assignment".

Issue noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.

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Assignment and issue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Assignment" instead a noun "Issue".

Nearby Words: issued, issuing, issuance, issuer

old	old assignment	old issue
special	special assignment	special issue
particular	particular assignment	particular issue
regular	regular assignment	regular issue
Other adjectives: current, original, single, actual, entire, real, big, serious, important, new, early, major, final, primary, next, last, latest, comic, recent, previous.

After years of translating manga, DeConnick got her first big assignment writing the 30 Days of Night: Eben & Stella four-issue miniseries in 2006.

Source: Creator / Kelly Sue De Connick
To elaborate: One of his issues begins with a panel of Deadpool garotting Santa Claus while the caption reads: "A routine assignment." And that is probably the least weird thing that happens in that issue.

Source: Serial Escalation / Comic Books
Lois Lane went undercover as a ballerina in an issue of Superman Family—she'd had lessons as a child, but her more recent martial arts training proved the key to successfully completing the assignment.

Source: Ballet Episode

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