transitive verb (past and past participleas·signed, present participleas·sign·ing, 3rd person present singularas·signs)
Definition:
1. give somebody task or duty: to give somebody a job to do assign homework
2. send somebody to do something: to send somebody to work in a particular place or with a particular group of people I assigned him to the maintenance department.
3. determine quality of something: to determine that somebody or something has a particular quality, name, use, or category The words are assigned a rating based on frequency.
4. set something aside for something: to designate something for a particular use The new radio station has been assigned a frequency by the authorities.
5. military order soldier: to put a soldier or military unit under a particular command
6. law transfer property: to transfer property or rights to another person by an official act
7. comput place value: to designate a value for a computer memory location corresponding to a named variable
noun (pluralas·signs)
Definition:
law Same as assignee (sense 1) (sense 2)
[14th century. Via French< Latin assignare< signare "mark out, designate" < signum "mark"]
