Definition of "assign" []

To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. (verb-transitive)
To select for a duty or office; appoint: firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park. (verb-transitive)
To give out as a task; allot: assigned homework to the class. (verb-transitive)
To ascribe; attribute: sorted the rocks by assigning them to different categories. See Synonyms at attribute. (verb-transitive)
Law To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another. (verb-transitive)

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Use "assign" in a sentence

"The assign is a ultimate in a legal conflict in between New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as fume shops upon a Poospatuck Indian Reservation over a sale of millions of dollars in untaxed cigarettes."
"But we had been all over which sanatorium any day for years during a time, as good as for dual years had been a Physician in assign of a Emergency Room, myself."
"In the absence of a candidate for a designer (and even Behe admits that design requires a designer) then the only probability I can be assign is zero."

Words like "assign"

adjudge allot appoint apportion appropriate

appurtenance arrogate ascribe assignable assignation

assigned assigning assignment assigns attribute

claim lay claim refer transfer