assign

/ə'sain/
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assign

The teacher will assign a new project to the class on Monday.

Definition
  1. 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.
assign

The teacher will assign a new project to the class on Monday.

Verb
  1. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
    • The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
  2. transfer one's right to
  3. make undue claims to having
  4. attribute or give
    • She put too much emphasis on her the last statement
    • He put all his efforts into this job
    • The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story
  5. select something or someone for a specific purpose
    • The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
  6. attribute or credit to
    • We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
    • People impute great cleverness to cats
  7. give out
    • We were assigned new uniforms
  8. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

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