assign
/ə'sain/
Definition
- Verb:
- To designate or allocate something for a specific purpose or to a specific person: To give someone a particular job, task, or responsibility.
- To attribute or ascribe a quality, cause, or value to something: To decide that something is the result of a particular person, situation, or thing.
- To transfer a right, property, or legal interest to another person: To legally give or hand over something to someone else.
- To appoint or select someone for a position or duty: To officially give someone a particular role or task.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- The manager will assign new projects to the team next week.
- It is difficult to assign a single cause to such a complex event.
- The contract allows him to assign his shares to a family member.
- She was assigned to the embassy in Paris.
Advanced Usage
- "to assign blame": to decide who or what is responsible for something bad.
- It is too early to assign blame for the accident.
- "to assign a value": to decide the worth, importance, or meaning of something.
- How do you assign a value to a piece of art?
- "to assign homework/tasks": to give work to be done, especially by students or employees.
- The teacher assigns homework every Friday.
Variants and Related Words
- Assignment (n): A task or piece of work allocated to someone; the act of assigning.
- His first assignment was to write a report.
- Assignee (n): A person to whom a right or property is legally transferred.
- The assignee received the property after the legal transfer.
- Assignor (n): A person who transfers a right or property to another.
- The assignor signed the documents to complete the transfer.
Synonyms
- Allocate: To distribute resources or duties for a particular purpose.
- Appoint: To assign a job or role to someone.
- Attribute: To regard something as being caused by or belonging to.
- Designate: To officially choose someone or something for a specific purpose.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Assign to: To give a task, duty, or characteristic to someone or something.
- This error was assigned to a software bug.
- Assign out: To distribute tasks or work to various people.
- The coordinator will assign out the different roles for the event.
Related Idioms
- Assign a date: To set or fix a specific time for an event.
- We need to assign a date for the next meeting.
- Assign a meaning: To interpret or decide what something signifies.
- Different cultures assign different meanings to this symbol.
Verb
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decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
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The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
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transfer one's right to
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make undue claims to having
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attribute or give
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She put too much emphasis on her the last statement
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He put all his efforts into this job
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The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story
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select something or someone for a specific purpose
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The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
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attribute or credit to
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We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
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People impute great cleverness to cats
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give out
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We were assigned new uniforms
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give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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