Dictionary![]() ![]() as•signPronunciation: (u-sīn'), [key] —v.t. 1. to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel. 2. to give out or announce as a task: to assign homework. 3. to appoint, as to a post or duty: to assign one to guard duty. 4. to designate; name; specify: to assign a day for a meeting. 5. to ascribe; attribute; bring forward: to assign a cause. 6. Law.to transfer: to assign a contract. 7. Mil.to place permanently on duty with a unit or under a commander. —v.i. Law.to transfer property, esp. in trust or for the benefit of creditors. —n. Usually, assigns. Law.a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee: my heirs and assigns. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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