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school assignment

n. a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher [syn: schoolwork]

Usage examples of "school assignment".

Then I picked up my copy of Esquire again and turned back to an article reading 'The Next Vietnam,' which was part of a school assignment.

I'm twenty-three, but because I look a lot younger than I am, I was put on a special high school assignment with the narcotics squad, and they sent me to the school in your area.

I first read _Heart of Darkness_ at age fifteen, introduced to its dense and thickly shadowed prose, like almost every other modern reader, via a school assignment.

Dawn tiptoed downstairs with her Kid-Kit and worked on a school assignment until the Jo-hanssens returned.