assigning

Verb

assign (third-person singular simple present assigns, present participle assigning, simple past and past participle assigned)

1. (transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
   • to assign a day for trial

   Synonyms:

   allocate

2. (transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
   • to assign counsel for a prisoner
3. (transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
   • “I cannot do it, Sir !” was his reply. “I fire into their ranks, and that does as well ; but to single out one among them, and mark him for death, would lie upon my mind afterwards.” The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, volume I, London: John Murray, page 210

   Synonyms:

   commission

4. (transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
   1. (transitive) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
5. (transitive) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.

   Synonyms:

   consign

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