assign
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.
Law. to transfer property, especially in trust or for the benefit of creditors.
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
1synonym study For assign
Other words for assign
Other words from assign
- as·sign·er; Chiefly Law. as·sign·or [uh-sahy-nawr, as-uh-nawr], /ə saɪˈnɔr, ˌæs əˈnɔr/, noun
- mis·as·sign, verb
- non·as·signed, adjective
- pre·as·sign, verb (used with object)
- pre·as·signed, adjective
- re·as·sign, verb (used with object)
- self-as·signed, adjective
- un·as·signed, adjective
- well-as·signed, adjective
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How to use assign in a sentence
Bratton now announced that he was appointing Ramos an honorary chaplain at the 84th Precinct where he was assigned.
Choking Back Tears, Thousands of Cops Honor Fallen Officer Ramos | Michael Daly | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBlack and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned.
'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops | Michael Daly | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTwo police assigned to the apartment on a detail were doing a “vertical patrol” up the stairs when the door opened.
To make matters worse, Jackson placed great value on regurgitating every last detail of the assigned texts.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt had been a headline case, and a task force of over a hundred detectives had been assigned to investigate.
The actor, whose name was Taylor, could not remember the name assigned to him in his part of the play.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Leave the girl to grow up in the station to which God has assigned her, no matter by whose human hands the deed was done.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn RaymondAn insurance policy may be assigned, though it usually contains a clause that the consent of the insurer is needful.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesIt is ninety-seven miles due East from the situation assigned to Dampier's Rocks.
The funds assigned some years before for the support of the civil list had fallen short of the estimate.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for assign
/ (əˈsaɪn) /
to select for and appoint to a post, etc: to 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 event: to assign a day for the meeting
to attribute to a specified cause, origin, or source; ascribe: to 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
military to allocate (men or materials) on a permanent basis: Compare attach (def. 6)
computing to place (a value corresponding to a variable) in a memory location
law a person to whom property is assigned; assignee
Origin of assign
1Derived forms of assign
- assignable, adjective
- assignability, noun
- assignably, adverb
- assigner, noun
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