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assign v. [
delegate, designate, depute] give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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assign v. [
allot, portion] give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"
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assign v. [
impute, ascribe, attribute] attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
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assign v. [
specify, set apart] select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
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assign v. [
put] attribute or give; "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"
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