on assignment

ADJECTIVE

busy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

active unavailable working

STRONG

buried employed engaged engrossed hustling occupied overloaded persevering slaving snowed swamped

WEAK

already taken assiduous at it diligent having a full plate having enough on one's plate having fish to fry having many irons in the fire in a meeting in conference in someone else's possession in the field in the laboratory industrious on duty on the go tied-up up to one's ears with a customer

Antonyms

STRONGEST

idle

STRONG

inactive unoccupied

WEAK

lazy quiet unbusy unemployed unengaged

Example Sentences

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In March, she was paid by a staffing agency to post a TikTok highlighting her trips to New York City and various beach locales while on assignment.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

At one point, she told him that Doyle was out of touch while on assignment in Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

The company said it was suspending most business trips to the US and directing employees on assignment in the US to return home immediately.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2025

Of course, we also wonder if it will also apply to a diplomat overseas, a nonuniformed person working for the federal government on assignment elsewhere.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2025

The other Navajo men of the first twenty- nine had been sent on assignment overseas, but he and John Benally, another member of the Navajo 382nd, had been given a different job.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

on assignment

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