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assign definition - finance
To transfer ownership from one party to another by signing a contract. The assignor gives up ownership and the assignee becomes the owner.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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