undertaking vs assignment

assignment vs undertaking

undertaking and assignment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
undertaking	Yes	No	No	No
assignment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assignment is a hyponym of undertaking; that is, assignment is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than undertaking:

undertaking: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
assignment: an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

Other hyponyms of undertaking include breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover, adventure, dangerous undertaking, escapade, risky venture, baby, endeavor, endeavour, enterprise, labor of love, labour of love, endurance contest, marathon, no-brainer, proposition, large order, tall order, venture.

undertaking (noun)	assignment (noun)
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted	a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
the trade of a funeral director	the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
	the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
	an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
	the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
	(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

Difference between undertaking and assignment

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