ASSIGN meaning: Allocate or designate for a purpose

We found 44 dictionaries that define the word assign:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

assign: Merriam-Webster.com
assign: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
assign: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
assign: Collins English Dictionary
assign: Vocabulary.com
Assign, assign: Wordnik
assign: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
assign: Wiktionary
assign: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
assign: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
assign: Infoplease Dictionary
assign: Dictionary.com
assign: Online Etymology Dictionary
assign: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
ASSIGN (DOS command), Assign: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Assign: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
assign: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
assign: Rhymezone
assign: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
assign: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
assign: Free Dictionary
assign: Mnemonic Dictionary
assign: Dictionary/thesaurus
assign: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (13 matching dictionaries)

assign: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
assign: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
assign: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Assign: Investopedia
Assign: INSOLVENCY
assign: Legal dictionary
assign: Financial dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
Assign: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Webopedia (No longer online)
assign: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
ASSIGN: Acronym Finder
assign: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
▸ verb:  (LGBT) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
▸ verb:  (transitive, law) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
▸ verb:  (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
▸ noun:  An assignee.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A design or purpose.

Similar:

depute, ascribe, designate, impute, allot, portion, set apart, put, specify, delegate, more...

Opposite:

release, dismiss, detach, remove, unassign

Types:

delegate, appoint, commission, task, more...

Phrases:

assign to, to assign dower, assign numbers to, assign some war correspondents, to assign, more...

Adjectives:

select, click, name, and, trans, optional

Colors:

blue, green, red, yellow, orange, more...

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