What is the meaning of assign?

Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person.
- synonyms: delegate, designate, depute
Give out.
- usage: "We were assigned new uniforms"
- synonyms: allot, portion
Attribute or credit to.
- usage: "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
- synonyms: impute, ascribe, attribute
Select something or someone for a specific purpose.
- usage: "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
- synonyms: specify, set apart
Attribute or give.
- usage: "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
- synonyms: put
Make undue claims to having.
- synonyms: arrogate
Transfer one's right to.
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.
- usage: "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
- synonyms: attribute

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