assign

Verb

• decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
  • The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
    

• transfer one's right to

• make undue claims to having

• 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
    

• select something or someone for a specific purpose
  • The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
    

• attribute or credit to
  • We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
    
  • People impute great cleverness to cats
    

• give out
  • We were assigned new uniforms
    

• give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  attribute , arrogate , put , specify , set apart , impute , ascribe , allot , portion , delegate , designate , depute