assign
verb (used with object)
to give or allocate; allot.
preassigned
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a word derived from
assign.
Example Sentences
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Southwest was preparing in a few days to ditch open seating and go to preassigned seat sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
At the Montalban, fans began lining up along Vine Street an hour before curtain time, even though seats were preassigned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2015
Like Leslie Jamison, whose essay collection Empathy Exams was published earlier this year, Daum pokes at how “human experiences too often come with preassigned emotional responses.”
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2014
To keep watch as Ike flies over the sea is a string of preassigned Navy vessels patrolling the Atlantic at 500-mile intervals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sending him off alongside sprinter Limpio, he stationed the other two stablemates, Advocator and Chanceview, at preassigned places around the track.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
