assign
assign Lexical Profile
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• verb
To allocate or give a specific job, duty, or responsibility to someone.
"The professor decided to assign a twenty-page research paper for the final project."
To appoint or designate someone to a particular post, role, or location.
"The hospital administration will assign three additional nurses to the emergency ward tonight."
To attribute or ascribe a quality, value, function, or origin to something.
"Historians have struggled to assign an exact date to the ancient manuscript."
To transfer legal rights, property, or interests from one person or entity to another.
"The inventor agreed to assign the patent rights to the manufacturing company in exchange for royalties."
• noun
A person to whom property, rights, or legal interests are transferred (usually used in the plural in legal contracts).
"The terms of the lease are binding upon the tenant and all future heirs, executors, and assigns."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 14th century from Old French assigner, from Latin assignare ('to mark out, allot, or appoint'), composed of ad- ('to') and signare ('to make a sign or mark'), from signum ('mark, seal').