Definitions for assign

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assign as·sign

Spelling: [uh-sahyn]

IPA: /əˈsaɪn/

Assign is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in assign (aginss).

Definitions for assign

noun

1. Usually, assigns. Law. a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee:

verb (used with object)

1. to give or allocate; allot:
2. to give out or announce as a task:
3. to appoint, as to a post or duty:
4. to designate; name; specify:
5. to ascribe; attribute; bring forward:
6. Law. to transfer:
7. Military. to place permanently on duty with a unit or under a commander.

verb (used without object)

1. Law. to transfer property, especially in trust or for the benefit of creditors.

Origin of assign

1250-1300; Middle English assignen Old French assigner Latin assignāre. See as-, sign

Examples for assign

It is perhaps too early to assign him his place in American literature.

I have met with the word in French authors, but never could assign any idea to it.

Renee Richardson knows she'll likely never be able to assign blame for her son's death—she's done fighting for that.

Girls are directed through several pages of this until they are asked to assign the guy a series of pre-decided adjectives.

And if it be impossible to assign any, this will serve to confirm our suspicion.

Now the Kremlin will assign more loyal people to rule the region, mostly military leaders.

When we assign a primitive “not me” status to another individual or social group, it can—and does—take us down a destructive path.

With what cheerfulness will I assign over this envied estate!

Other folks can debate and assign blame for “who lost Iraq.”

Between thirty and fifty years, it was impossible to assign an age to him.