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assign::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | delegate, depute, designate |
| Type of | charge, appoint |
| Has types | relegate, elevate, task, place, cast, bump, break, devolve, upgrade, reassign, raise, promote, kick downstairs, kick upstairs, regiment, post, mandate, depute, transfer, demote, delegate, advance |
| Derivation | assignment |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ascribe, attribute, impute |
| Type of | pass judgment, judge, evaluate |
| Has types | reattribute, anthropomorphise, accredit, project, internalize, internalise, interiorize, interiorise, blame, impute, anthropomorphize, carnalize, externalize, externalise, charge, credit, sensualize, personate, personify |
| Verb group | impute |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | transfer |
| Derivation | assignment, assignee, assignable |
Examples of assign
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Four days after the blast, the Navy convened a court of inquiry to assign blame.
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The state would then set aside the district superintendent and assign a trustee.
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That could result in a unique ranking, showing how much blame to assign to each.
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It's also difficult to assign seats to two stadiums that haven't yet been built.
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Judges assign credit for smoothness, finesse, attitude, quickness and authority.
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Customer Support Software Track, assign and report on customer support requests.
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May assign work to and direct less senior employees as appropriate and required.
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Often the parties assign the block seats to unsuccessful single-seat candidates.
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Make an effort to assign tasks to individuals by giving them complete ownership.
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- Delegate: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- Give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"
- Impute: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
- Select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
- Put: attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
- Arrogate: make undue claims to having
- (Assignment (education)) Homework, or homework assignment, refers to tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed mostly outside of class, and derives its name from the fact that most students do the majority of such work at home. ...
- (Assignment (mathematical logic)) In logic and model theory, a valuation can be: *In propositional logic, an assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables. ...
- (Assignment (patent)) As objects of intellectual property or intangible assets, patents and patent applications may be transferred. ...
