assign

assign is on the Academic Word List.

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /əˈsaɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: as‧sign

Verb

Plain form assign

Third-person singular assigns

Past tense assigned

Past participle assigned

Present participle assigning

1. (transitive) When you assign a job to someone, you tell them to do it.

   That teacher always assigns too much homework.

2. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.

   No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life.

Related words

• assignment