1. Allocate a task to a person
   "The manager assigned the project to her most experienced team member";
   - delegate, designate, depute
    
2. Select something or someone for a specific purpose
   "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise";
   - specify, set apart
    
3. Distribute or set aside for a specific purpose or recipient
   "We were assigned new uniforms"; "The teacher assigned homework";
   - allot, portion
    
4. Associate ownership or authorship with
   "People assign great cleverness to cats";
   - impute, ascribe, attribute
    
5. Attribute or give
   "The teacher assigned homework to the class";
   - put
    
6. Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
   "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class";
   - attribute
    
7. Transfer one's right to
   "She assigned her life insurance policy to her daughter"

1. (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
   "As the assign of the copyright, she now had full control over the book's publication";
   - assignee

Derived forms: assigning, assigned, assigns

Type of: administer, allot, apply, appoint, charge, choose, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole, dole out, employ, evaluate, judge, lot, mete, mete out, parcel out, party, pass judgment, pick out, receiver, recipient, select, take, transfer, use, utilise [Brit], utilize

Encyclopedia: Assign