- to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- to give out or announce as a task: to assign homework.
- to appoint, as to a post or duty: to assign one to guard duty.
- to designate; name; specify: to assign a day for a meeting.
- to ascribe; attribute; bring forward: to assign a cause.
- to transfer: to assign a contract.
- to place permanently on duty with a unit or under a commander.
- to transfer property, especially in trust or for the benefit of creditors.
- a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee: my heirs and assigns.
- to select for and appoint to a post, etc
- to give out or allot (a task, problem, etc)
- to set apart (a place, person, time, etc) for a particular function or event
- to attribute to a specified cause, origin, or source; ascribe
- to transfer (one's right, interest, or title to property) to someone else
- (formerly) to transfer (property) to trustees so that it may be used for the benefit of creditors
- to allocate (men or materials) on a permanent basis
- to place (a value corresponding to a variable) in a memory location
- a person to whom property is assigned; assignee
