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Meaning of assign in English
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assign verb [T] ( CHOOSE )
- Every available officer will be assigned to the investigation .
- The textbooks were assigned by the course director .
- Part of the group were assigned to clear land mines .
- Each trainee is assigned a mentor who will help them learn more about the job .
- We were assigned an interpreter for the duration of our stay .
- accommodate
- accommodate someone with something
- administration
- arm someone with something
- be good for something idiom
- go around phrasal verb
- go round phrasal verb
- hand something around phrasal verb
- hand something back phrasal verb
- put something on phrasal verb
- re-equipment
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assign verb [T] ( SEND )
- She was assigned to the Paris office .
- All the team were assigned to Poland.
- advertisement
- recruitment
- recruitment drive
- reinstatement
- speculative
assign verb [T] ( COMPUTING )
- 3-D printing
- adaptive learning
- additive manufacturing
- hallucination
- hallucinatory
- systems analysis
- techno-solutionism
assign verb [T] ( GIVE LEGALLY )
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Definition of assign
(Entry 1 of 2)
transitive verb
Definition of assign (Entry 2 of 2)
- intrust
ascribe , attribute , assign , impute , credit mean to lay something to the account of a person or thing.
ascribe suggests an inferring or conjecturing of cause, quality, authorship.
attribute suggests less tentativeness than ascribe , less definiteness than assign .
assign implies ascribing with certainty or after deliberation.
impute suggests ascribing something that brings discredit by way of accusation or blame.
credit implies ascribing a thing or especially an action to a person or other thing as its agent, source, or explanation.
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Word history.
Verb and Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French assigner , from Latin assignare , from ad- + signare to mark, from signum mark, sign
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing assign
- pre - assign
Dictionary Entries Near assign
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“Assign.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assign. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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