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Definition of Assign

Assign To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial. To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns. 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. Related Definitions: Allot, An, And, Another, Appoint, Apportion, Appurtenance, Assign, As, Assignee, Assignor, Belonging, Benefit, Called, Certain, Counsel, Day, Deed, Designate, Else, Exactly, Fix, For, Furtherance, His, In, Interest, Is, Limit, Make, Man, Of, Or, Out, Over, Pass, Person, Pertaining, Point, Prisoner, Property, Select, Some, Something, Specify, The, Thing, To, Transfer, Transferred, Trial, Trust, Vest, Whether, Whom

Assign Quotations If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? Charles Baudelaire It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college. James S. Coleman Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. Edward Sapir The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. H. P. Blavatsky

Assign Translations assign in Afrikaans is daag assign in Dutch is betekenen, dagen, dagvaarden assign in French is assignent, assigner, assignons, assignez, mandater assign in German is beauftragen, zuweisen, zuteilen assign in Italian is delegare assign in Latin is tribuo, delego assign in Portuguese is atribua assign in Spanish is asignar, adjudicar, comisionar

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