assign

assigned assigning assigns
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1. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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2. give out or allot; "We were assigned new uniforms"
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3. attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
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4. select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
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5. 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"
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6. make undue claims to having
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7. transfer one's right to
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8. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
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