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- DictionaryAs·sign/əˈsīn/
verb
- 1. allocate (a job or duty): "Congress assigned the task to the agency"
- 2. designate or set (something) aside for a specific purpose: "managers happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets"
noun
- 1. another term for assignee
To assign is to specify something or someone for a specific purpose. If your sisters fight over whose turn it is to sit in the front seat, your parents may have to assign turns. The verb assign also means to transfer legal rights. You assign the deed to your house to new owners when you sell it.
verb. OPAL W. /əˈsaɪn/ Verb Forms. to give somebody something that they can use, or some work or responsibility. assign something (to somebody) The teacher assigned a different task to each of the children. The two large classrooms have been assigned to us. assign somebody something We have been assigned the two large classrooms.
6 days ago · 1. transitive verb. If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do. When I taught, I would assign a topic to children that they would write about. Later in the year, she'll assign them research papers. Synonyms: give, set, grant, allocate More Synonyms of assign. 2. transitive verb.
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.
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.
2 days ago · ( transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose . to assign a day for trial. ( transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office . to assign counsel for a prisoner. ( transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task . ( transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories .
6 days ago · to assign an expert to the job. 2. to give out or allot (a task, problem, etc) to assign advertising to an expert. 3. to set apart (a place, person, time, etc) for a particular function or event. to assign a day for the meeting. 4. to attribute to a specified cause, origin, or source; ascribe.
