Definition of Assign

Verb: assign  u'sIn

  1. Allocate a task to a person
    - delegate, designate, depute
     
  2. Give out
    "We were assigned new uniforms";
    - allot, portion
     
  3. Associate ownership or authorship with
    "People assign great cleverness to cats";
    - impute, ascribe, attribute
     
  4. Select something or someone for a specific purpose
    "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise";
    - specify, set apart
     
  5. Attribute or give
    - put
     
  6. Make undue claims to having
    - arrogate
     
  7. Transfer one's right to
     
  8. Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
    "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class";
    - attribute
Noun: assign  u'sIn
  1. (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
    - assignee

See also:
assiduousnesses
assignabilities

Anagrams containing the word assign

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