assigning

as·sign  (-sn)

tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs

1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection.

2. To select for a duty or office; appoint: firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park.

3. To give out as a task; allot: assigned homework to the class.

4. To ascribe; attribute: sorted the rocks by assigning them to different categories. See Synonyms at attribute.

5. Law To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.

6. To place (a person or a military unit) under a specific command.

n. Law

An assignee.

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[Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, from Latin assignre : ad-, ad- + signre, to mark (from signum, sign; see sek^w-¹ in Indo-European roots).]

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as·signa·bili·ty n.

as·signa·ble adj.

as·signa·bly adv.

as·signer n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

assigning - the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" assignment storage allocation, allocation - (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions distribution - the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning