assign

assign
—assigner; Chiefly Law. assignor /euh suy nawr", as'euh nawr"/, n.
/euh suyn"/, 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.
8. Law. to transfer property, esp. in trust or for the benefit of creditors.
n.
9. Usually, assigns. Law. a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee: my heirs and assigns.
[1250-1300; ME assignen < OF assigner < L assignare. See AS-, SIGN]
Syn. 1. ASSIGN, ALLOCATE, ALLOT mean to apportion or measure out. To ASSIGN is to distribute available things, designating them to be given to or reserved for specific persons or purposes: to assign duties. To ALLOCATE is to earmark or set aside parts of things available or expected in the future, each for a specific purpose: to allocate income to various types of expenses. To ALLOT implies making restrictions as to amount, size, purpose, etc., and then apportioning or assigning: to allot spaces for parking. 4. fix, determine. 5. adduce, allege, advance, show, offer.

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