Definitions for assigns

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assigns as·sign

Spelling: [uh-sahyn]

IPA: /əˈsaɪn/

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

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in assigns (aginsss).

Definitions for assigns

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 assigns

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

Examples for assigns

With what cheerfulness will I assign over this envied estate!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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