transitive verb

• 1Allocate (a job or duty)

  ‘Congress assigned the task to the agency’

  More example sentences

  • ‘his leader assigned him this mission’
  • ‘For students such as that, I will assign a special job for the summer production.’
  • ‘‘Good,’ he continued, as his mom brought in some more snacks, ‘Lets begin by assigning jobs.’’
  • ‘Some things you need to discuss in the first few meetings include: venue, assigning jobs, creating a name for the festival, and organizing fundraising.’
  • ‘I let everyone wake up on their own time before assigning jobs.’
  • ‘The Army is assigning active duty liaisons to support all four of the VA's Poly Trauma Centers on a trial basis.’
  • ‘In practice, it will be able to assign jobs as it sees fit.’
  • ‘He should assign duties that best utilize the abilities of each player.’
  • ‘The point of an internship is to learn something, so you must keep that in mind as you assign the intern duties.’
  • ‘The Codae meeting was meant only to assign jobs and check on everyone's status.’
  • ‘Instead, he opts to assign the job of piecing together their dialogues to the reader.’
  • ‘Some of you may be assigned Orientation Duty, which means you show them around.’
  • ‘Talk about how you can break down the tasks, and assign jobs.’
  • ‘Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties.’
  • ‘Only graduates majoring in movie directing have a chance of being assigned a directing job in one of the approved studios.’
  • ‘I had also been assigned another mission that day: to find a long-lost pen.’
  • ‘‘Ah, but I can assign washing duty,’ she said as she pushed her empty plate towards his direction.’

  Synonyms

  allocate, allot, give, set

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  1. 1.1Appoint (someone) to a particular job, task, or organization.
     ‘she has been assigned to a new job’
     More example sentences

     • ‘he was assigned to prosecute the case’
     • ‘After a vacation in Ireland he was assigned to promotion work in the Diocese of Clonfert until 1964.’
     • ‘I was actually assigned to study journalism and did not choose to be a journalist on my own.’
     • ‘He was assigned to the daily personal care of the most profoundly disabled member of the house.’
     • ‘A person is assigned to complete the task, and the process or approach to reduce the risk is identified.’
     • ‘I'm also going to post a list of what chores each of you are assigned to.’
     • ‘To his chagrin, he's assigned to a desolate base in icy Greenland.’
     • ‘This morning I was assigned to cover a keynote speech at a conference, the same conference I covered yesterday.’
     • ‘I was assigned to play forward and managed (more by luck than skill) to score two goals in the game.’
     • ‘Afterwards he was assigned to the 7th United States Cavalry and remained with them until his death.’
     • ‘He was assigned to be a plasterer in a neighbouring community, allowing no time and chance for him to fully tap his talent.’
     • ‘I was assigned to a group taught by a New Yorker staff writer of a lovely style.’
     • ‘A new Judge was assigned to his homicide conspiracy case; so he is back at square one.’
     • ‘Instead, with his movie-making experience, he was assigned to make military training films for pilots.’
     • ‘With no ensemble or piece to perform in, he was assigned to do solo standup comedy at last year's fundraiser.’
     • ‘He was then assigned to work at a mechanical parts factory in a county.’
     • ‘I was assigned to make the changes in the song, through some favor called in by a friend long ago.’
     • ‘After graduation from the dance school, he was assigned to the Shanghai Ballet Company.’
     • ‘The waiter was working for a popular restaurant when he was assigned to a home wedding reception.’
     • ‘He'd already given me headaches when I was assigned to cover his visit to York.’
     • ‘I was temporarily assigned to a cubicle that was supposed to be empty for another day.’
     Synonyms

     appoint, promote, delegate, commission, post, nominate, vote, elect, adopt, co-opt

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• 2Designate or set (something) aside for a specific purpose.

  ‘managers happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Specific streets and roads are assigned for selling specific goods.’
  • ‘You can reprogram the keys to launch different programs, open specific folder or assign URLs.’
  • ‘‘We will assign a specific recovery room suite to them and they're the only ones with access to it,’ Siefried said.’
  • ‘Increase the number of positive responses to your requests and reduce volunteer burnout and discontentment by assigning a specific term length to each position or task.’
  • ‘I feel I am an example of midwife services working well with resources being assigned appropriately.’
  • ‘I'm convinced God has assigned a legion of Road-Angels specifically to me.’
  • ‘One must understand the importance of assigning an appropriate number of NAIs at the battalion level.’
  • ‘The multiplexer analyzes the complexity from all of them and assigns it appropriately.’
  • ‘For those who fail to designate a private money manager, the government bank is assigned by default.’
  • ‘The virtual interface is then assigned to a specific user or user community.’
  • ‘The schedulers assign an appropriate number from within that range and choose an even or odd flight number according to the direction of flight.’
  • ‘By assigning each group of pages to a specific channel and comparing results in custom channel reports webmasters can work at increasing their AdSense revenue.’
  • ‘Additionally, it is possible to assign any real-time interrupt service to any specific CPU.’
  • ‘Caitlin acted as traffic controller, designating the rooms to which the things were assigned.’
  • ‘The major campus activity was for the campus grants office to assign a grant number and designate budget lines so that payroll and vendor records could be created.’
  • ‘Another possible EU equivalent to the tenth amendment might be a proposed catalogue of competences assigning policy responsibilities to specific levels of government.’

  Synonyms

  earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve

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  1. 2.1assign something toAttribute something as belonging to.
     ‘it is difficult to decide whether to assign the victory to Goodwin’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Imagine if you could assign attributes to any file by speech.’
     • ‘His societal levels for prehistoric societies are arbitrary at best; he assigns incorrect dates to events; and attributes significance to events that are debatable.’
     • ‘A district court judge later assigned the case to Noelle, a former attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission now in private practice.’
     • ‘The Prosecution Office assigned the investigation to the National Investigative Service.’
     • ‘Members are selected at random to perform a kind of virtual jury duty, assigning a score to each comment according to its value.’
     • ‘However, further investigations are needed before assigning these Mexican specimens to a new status.’
     • ‘The company will maintain patients' confidentiality by assigning a numeric code to the donated tissue.’
     • ‘I have assigned numbers to the cases according to the date of occurrence of the accident.’
     • ‘We assigned approximate percentages to food types according to their importance in the feeding spectrum of each species.’
     • ‘Following the appeal, the MND assigned the case to the Bureau of Investigation in October and asked the CSBC to suspend the contract last month.’
     • ‘The builder can now afford to assign engineering resources to the project without hedging against lost quoting hours.’
     • ‘The permits assign every Chinese citizen to a home district, outside of which they have few rights to welfare benefits, medical care or schooling.’
     • ‘Due to poor preservation, it is not possible to assign the present material to one of these species.’
     • ‘Relative weights are assigned to the various customer attributes.’
     • ‘Last week some of them discovered a remote and unexplored passage in Assynt, a find that affords them the privilege of assigning a name to the new cave.’
     • ‘Prior to the participant arriving, the researcher pseudo-randomly assigned the participant to a particular condition and programmed the software accordingly.’
     • ‘Such an interpreter would attribute beliefs to others and assign meanings to their utterances, but would nevertheless do so on the basis of his own, true, beliefs.’
     • ‘The map shows the teams in which people actually work, as opposed to those they are assigned to.’
     • ‘The patients were assigned to two groups of roughly equal numbers.’
     • ‘As a commander who receives missions and assigns missions to others, I suddenly am not thinking about the missions.’
     Synonyms

     ascribe, attribute, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute

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• 3Transfer (legal rights or liabilities)

  ‘they will ask you to assign your rights against the airline’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Presumably, rights under the tenancy could be assigned, but the transfer of burdens would be ruled out by the privity of contract rules.’
  • ‘No order, nor any part order issued by the Company shall be assigned, sublet or transferred without the prior consent in writing of the Company.’
  • ‘The employer executes a deed of assignment in standard form assigning legal ownership of the policies to each of the employees concerned and the insurers are notified accordingly.’
  • ‘The Sponsor has the right to assign such aforesaid rights and licence to its affiliates.’
  • ‘Invariably the borrower itself will be expressly prohibited from assigning its rights, notably its right to make further draw-downs.’
  • ‘The inclusion of amalgamation in an assignment would constitute a further restriction on the tenants' common law right to assign without consent.’
  • ‘Clauses 5, 8 and 9 also assign responsibility and define the basis of liability.’
  • ‘The Borrower shall not be entitled to assign, transfer or otherwise deal in any way with all or any of its rights, benefits and obligations under this Agreement.’
  • ‘A further possibility is that the author may be bound by the terms of contract or by contract law to assign the copyright in the work to some other party.’
  • ‘Copyright rests with the individual photographers and rights are usually assigned for a single reproduction only.’
  • ‘Most investors shy away from brownfields because environmental laws assign liability to a broad range of parties, including the present owner.’
  • ‘The single-tax system assigns property rights so as to preserve economic incentives.’
  • ‘The lesson is that we should be careful in assigning property rights in a dynamic setting.’
  • ‘In the case of physical externalities such as pollution, we can often assign property rights as a way of settling disputes and improving matters.’
  • ‘Courts assign property rights depending on market data.’
  • ‘In general terms, you are assigning the copyright of the photo to the encyclopedia.’
  • ‘He was about to make an order that the legal title to all the copyrights in the world be assigned to the claimants when the defendants took a second point.’
  • ‘We've therefore decided that we will no longer ask authors to assign their copyrights.’
  • ‘We can then assign rights so as to maximize each individual's freedom, compatible with a like freedom for all.’
  • ‘There needs to be a balance between technological innovation and safety, and this balance will be best served by a balanced principle for assigning liability.’

  Synonyms

  transfer, make over, give, pass, hand over, hand down, convey, consign, alienate

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