» assign

Words people most associate with “assign”:

  1. give,
  2. meant,
  3. homework

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Verb (8 meanings)

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

to delegate, designate, depute, assign

to assign is a way to:
  • to appoint, charge (verb) - assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
ways to assign:
  • to cast (verb) - select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet
  • to cast (verb) - assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors
  • to delegate, depute (verb) - transfer power to someone
  • to demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs (verb) - assign to a lower position
  • to devolve (verb) - pass on or delegate to another
  • to mandate (verb) - assign authority to
  • to mandate (verb) - assign under a mandate
  • to place (verb) - place somebody in a particular situation or location
  • to place (verb) - assign to (a job or a home)
  • to post (verb) - assign to a post
  • to promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate (verb) - give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
  • to regiment (verb) - assign to a regiment
  • to task (verb) - assign a task to
  • to transfer, reassign (verb) - transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
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2. give out.

to assign, allot, portion

Example:
  • “We were assigned new uniforms”
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3. attribute or credit to.

to impute, ascribe, assign, attribute

Examples:
  • “We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare”,
  • “People impute great cleverness to cats”
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Verb group:
  • to impute (verb) - attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source

4. select something or someone for a specific purpose.

to assign, specify, set apart

Example:
  • “The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise”
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  • to dedicate (verb) - set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church
  • to detail (verb) - assign to a specific task
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  • assignment (noun) - an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
  • specification (noun) - naming explicitly

5. attribute or give.

to put, assign

Examples:
  • “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”
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  • to repose (verb) - put or confide something in a person or thing

6. make undue claims to having.

to arrogate, assign

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  • arrogator (noun) - a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess

7. transfer one's right to.

to assign

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  • to transfer (verb) - cause to change ownership
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  • assignable, conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable (adjective) - legally transferable to the ownership of another
  • assignee (noun) - (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
  • assignment (noun) - the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
  • grant, assignment (noun) - (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

8. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.

to assign, attribute

Example:
  • “The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class”
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