to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
to give out or announce as a task: to assign homework.
to appoint, as to a post or duty: to assign one to guard duty.
to designate; name; specify: to assign a day for a meeting.
to ascribe; attribute; bring forward: to assign a cause.
Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
Military. to place permanently on duty with a unit or under a commander.
verb (used without object)
Law. to transfer property, especially in trust or for the benefit of creditors.
noun
Usually assigns.Law. a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee: my heirs and assigns.
Origin of assign
1250–1300; Middle English assignen<Old French assigner<Latin assignāre.See as-, sign
SYNONYMS FOR assign
4 fix, determine.
5 adduce, allege, advance, show, offer.
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synonym study for assign
1. Assign,allocate,allot mean to apportion or measure out. To assign is to distribute available things, designating them to be given to or reserved for specific persons or purposes: to assign duties. To allocate is to earmark or set aside parts of things available or expected in the future, each for a specific purpose: to allocate income to various types of expenses. To allot implies making restrictions as to amount, size, purpose, etc., and then apportioning or assigning: to allot spaces for parking.
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Now the Kremlin will assign more loyal people to rule the region, mostly military leaders.
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Other folks can debate and assign blame for “who lost Iraq.”
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Renee Richardson knows she'll likely never be able to assign blame for her son's death—she's done fighting for that.
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Girls are directed through several pages of this until they are asked to assign the guy a series of pre-decided adjectives.
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He has been directed to report himself to you at Fort Smith for instructions, when you will assign him to duty.
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If it be his good pleasure to assign thee the part of a beggar, a ruler, or a simple citizen, thine it is to play it fitly.
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We may regard our race as composed of all the nations that have been and will be—and assign to it different ages.
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The duchies consequently fell repeatedly into the hands of the king, who then claimed the right to assign them to whom he wished.
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It is impossible to assign a precise date to the disappearance of the old Italian method.
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British Dictionary definitions for assign
assign
/ (əˈsaɪn) /
verb(mainly tr)
to select for and appoint to a post, etcto assign an expert to the job
to give out or allot (a task, problem, etc)to assign advertising to an expert
to set apart (a place, person, time, etc) for a particular function or eventto assign a day for the meeting
to attribute to a specified cause, origin, or source; ascribeto assign a stone cross to the Vikings
to transfer (one's right, interest, or title to property) to someone else
(also intr)law(formerly) to transfer (property) to trustees so that it may be used for the benefit of creditors
militaryto allocate (men or materials) on a permanent basisCompare attach (def. 6)
computingto place (a value corresponding to a variable) in a memory location
noun
lawa person to whom property is assigned; assignee