| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | as·sign |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -s n |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs
1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. To select for a duty or office; appoint: firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park. 3. To give out as a task; allot: assigned homework to the class. 4. To ascribe; attribute: sorted the rocks by assigning them to different categories. See synonyms at attribute. 5. Law To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another. 6. To place (a person or a military unit) under a specific command. | | NOUN: | Law An assignee. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, from Latin assign re : ad-, ad- + signre, to mark (from signum, sign; see sekw-1 in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | as·sign a·bili·ty —NOUN
as·signa·ble —ADJECTIVE
as·signa·bly —ADVERB
as·signer —NOUN
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