assign

[ uh-sahyn ]

/ əˈsaɪn /

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verb (used with object)

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.

OTHER WORDS FOR assign

4 fix, determine.

5 adduce, allege, advance, show, offer.

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Origin of assign

1250–1300; Middle English assignen<Old French assigner<Latin assignāre.See as-, sign

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.

OTHER WORDS FROM assign

as·sign·er; Chiefly Law. as·sign·or

[uh-sahy-nawr, as-uh-nawr], /ə saɪˈnɔr, ˌæs əˈnɔr/, nounmis·as·sign, verbnon·as·signed, adjectivepre·as·sign, verb (used with object)

pre·as·signed, adjectivere·as·sign, verb (used with object)self-as·signed, adjectiveun·as·signed, adjectivewell-as·signed, adjective

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How to use assign in a sentence

It will require face coverings at all times, assign seating in socially distanced pods and issue digital tickets.
George Mason will allow limited number of fans at home games|Steven Goff|November 11, 2020|Washington Post
So they tried to have the unassigned lands legally declared open to homesteaders.
We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run|James Arthur Kjelgaard
Captain Payne personally led several expeditions of colonists into the unassigned lands.
We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run|James Arthur Kjelgaard
From some unassigned reason, wolves have increased of late years in the wild forests of north-eastern Maine.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 434, December, 1851|Various

They could find no room for Mrs. Jaynes, until it was remembered that there was an unassigned dormitory room at Dare Hall.
Ruth Fielding At College|Alice B. Emerson
They were suffered to become betrothed, but for some unassigned reason their marriage was forbidden.
Glimpses of Three Coasts|Helen Hunt Jackson

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

military to allocate (men or materials) on a permanent basisCompare attach (def. 6)

computing to place (a value corresponding to a variable) in a memory location

noun

law a person to whom property is assigned; assignee

Derived forms of assign

assignable, adjectiveassignability, nounassignably, adverbassigner, noun

Word Origin for assign

C14: from Old French assigner, from Latin assignāre, from signāre to mark out

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