transitive verb. To select for a duty or office; appoint: synonym: appoint.

transitive verb. To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate: synonym: allocate.

transitive verb. To give out as a task; allot.

transitive verb. To ascribe; attribute: synonym: attribute.

transitive verb. To match or pair with.

transitive verb. To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.

noun. An assignee.

noun. Assignment; appointment.

noun. Design; purpose; object.

noun. A person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred: as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

noun. [Assign is a broader word than assignee. The assignees of a person are usually understood to mean those who take immediately from him, by his assignment; the assigns of a person include all who acquire title under his transfer, immediately or remotely.]

noun. A thing pertaining to something else; an appurtenance; an appendage.

To set apart; make over by distribution or appropriation; apportion; allot.

To point out; show; designate; specify.

To give, furnish, or specify: as, to assign a reason for anything.

To appoint; select for a duty or office: as, the officer assigned to the charge of a military department.

To ascribe; attribute; refer.

In law: To transfer or make over to another the right one has in any object, as in an estate, chose in action, or reversion, especially in trust for the security of creditors: rarely applied to testamentary transfers. To show or set forth with particularity: as, to assign error in a writ; to assign false judgment, To point out or substantiate as a charge: as, perjury cannot be assigned on an oath taken without the jurisdiction of the officer administering it.

Adduce, Allege, etc. (see adduce); to determine, give, name, present.

intransitive verb. To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust.

transitive verb. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

transitive verb. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly

transitive verb. To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.

transitive verb. to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate.

noun. A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

noun. A person to whom property or an interest is transferred.

verb. To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

verb. To appoint or select someone for some office.

verb. To allot or give something as a task.

verb. To attribute or sort something into categories.

verb. (law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

noun. An assignee.

verb. transfer one's right to

verb. attribute or give

verb. select something or someone for a specific purpose

verb. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme

verb. make undue claims to having

verb. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

verb. give out

verb. attribute or credit to

to assign dower  to assign in bankruptcy  

assignable  assignation  assigned  assigning  assignment  

arrogate  claim  lay claim  transfer  

Aline  Cline  Combine  Dine  Heine  

4d  boatloads  co-conspirator  condoin  etext  

abalienate  accredit  adjudge  alien  alienate  

assigned  assigning  assigns