Assign Definition

ə-sīn
assigned, assigning, assigns
verb
assigned, assigning, assigns
To select for a duty or office; appoint.
Firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park.
American Heritage
To set apart or mark for a specific purpose; designate.
Assign a day for the meeting.
Webster's New World
To transfer property, etc. to another.
Webster's New World
To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate.
Assigned the new species to an existing genus.
American Heritage
To place at some task or duty; appoint.
I was assigned to watch the road.
Webster's New World
noun
assigns
An assignee.
Webster's New World
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Assign

Noun

Singular:
assign
Plural:
assigns

Origin of Assign

  • Middle English assignen from Old French assigner from Latin assignāre ad- ad- signāre to mark (from signum sign sekw-1 in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old French assigner

    From Wiktionary

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