assignas‧sign /əˈsaɪn/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive] 
I’ve been assigned the task of looking after the new students.assign somebody to something Jan’s been assigned to the Asian Affairs Bureau.assign somebody to do something Madison was assigned to investigate a balloon accident.assign somebody something Assign each student a partner.2to give a particular time, value, place etc to something: How much time have you assigned for the meeting?assign something to something A code was assigned to each batch of work.3to give money, equipment etc to someone to useassign something to somebody A personal bodyguard had been assigned to her.assign somebody something They assigned me a small room.
WORD ORIGINassign
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French assigner, from Latin assignare, from ad- ‘to’ + signare ‘to mark’VERB TABLE
assign
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | assign |
| he, she, it | assigns | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | assigned |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have assigned |
| he, she, it | has assigned | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had assigned |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will assign |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have assigned |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am assigning |
| he, she, it | is assigning | |
| you, we, they | are assigning | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was assigning |
| you, we, they | were assigning | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been assigning |
| he, she, it | has been assigning | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been assigning |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be assigning |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been assigning |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- After her promotion took effect, she was assigned a research job.
- He was asked to assign two of his employees to the inventory control department.
- The job of producing a development program was assigned to the junior minister.
- You have been assigned the task of keeping the records up to date.
- Academic freedom does not protect materials, discussions, or comments that are not relevant to the assigned subject.
- As a general rule, the costs of pledging and assigning are about equal.
- I have continued to stay at the Abbey of Holy Rood involved in the matter assigned to me.
- Ory and his deputy, Gen. Gustave Houphouët Koassi, were assigned to other unspecified duties.
- The ticket counter folks refused to assign us a seat, sending us to the gate.
- What was she assigned to do that day if you know?
Longman Language Activatorto give someone work to do
if you give someone a job, some work etc, you offer them the job, work etc, or ask them to do it for you: give somebody something: · I asked Joel's teacher if we should give him some Level 4 work.· We were given some grammar assignments for homework.give something to somebody: · Angie did a really good interview, but they gave the job to someone with more experience.give somebody something to do/give something to somebody to do: · What can I give Helen to do? She's finished the filing.· OK, you open the parcels. That'll give you something to do.· 'Have you peeled the carrots?' 'No, I gave them to Dad to do.'
formal to give a particular job to a particular person: be assigned something: · You have been assigned the task of keeping the records up to date.· After her promotion took effect, she was assigned a research job.be assigned to somebody: · The job of producing a development program was assigned to the junior minister.· He was asked to assign two of his employees to the inventory control department.
especially British if a teacher or employer sets you a piece of work, they give it to you to do, and you must finish it by a particular time or date: set homework/a task/work etc: · Mr Harris always sets a lot of homework.· Is that all -- or has she set some other task for you as well?· Anneka was set the huge task by Christian Aid on behalf of a family who fled from war-torn Mozambique.set somebody something: · She set us some work to do in groups.· At the end of the session, they were set a homework task.
to appoint someone to do a piece of work for you, for example to write a report or to produce some artistic or scientific work: · The Philadelphia Medical Society commissioned a report on alcoholism.be commissioned for/by/from etc: · His 'Landscapes' Symphony was commissioned for the inaugural concert of the Shepherd School.· Seventy-five percent of Americans think that women are more sensual than men, according to a survey commissioned by Revlon.· The Left-Hand Piano Concerto was the first of several works commissioned from distinguished composers.commission somebody to do something: · In 1506, Bramante was commissioned by Pope Julius II to rebuild St Peter's church.· The gallery is housed in the new wing, which he commissioned Adams to build 18 years ago.
also lumber somebody with British informal to give someone an unpleasant or difficult job to do: be/get saddled with something: · Campaign adviser Ken Polaski has been saddled with the job of explaining the recent presidential gaffes.· 'I'm sorry you've been lumbered with running me back home,' said Ashley stiffly.saddle something with something: · The Hong Kong Rugby Union has saddled Simpkin with the post of national coach to the ailing team.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY I’ve been assigned the task of looking after the new students.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I’ve been assigned the task of looking after the new students. formal (=find someone to blame for something)· He seemed to want to apportion blame for her death.
(=give someone a task to do)· People were assigned different tasks.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· In the Health Study, individual children were randomly assigned either vitamin A or placebo.· Babies were randomly assigned to one of two groups.· Patients are randomly assigned to treatments even if the doctor suspects that one form of treatment might be better.· Subjects were randomly assigned to receive a placebo or the cholesterol-lowering drug pravastatin.· Those with moderate risk are randomly assigned to either an oral insulin or a placebo.· The suit against Proposition 209 was randomly assigned to another judge, Vaughn Walker.· The male students were randomly assigned to one of four groups.· Study participants were randomly assigned to two different groups.
NOUN· Although conservation matters are generally assigned on an area basis, many councils now have their own conservation officers.· Uneven as the crowd was, my path had taken me close to an outer edge near the earliest assigned parking area.· Ward learning resources During her training, a student is assigned to various clinical areas for periods of six to twelve weeks.· If we preserve both standards of review we then have to assign different subject-matter areas to each test.· Cases were assigned to areas according to their residence address at diagnosis as defined for the national cancer registration scheme.
· We checked into it and Sun has two engineers assigned to the case.· After they filed their report, a detective was assigned to the case to investigate.· So is Joe Mantegna, as the homicide detective assigned to the case, telling her to let the law handle it.· Rooney, is assigned to the Hastings case.· A detective, more than a week after the incident is reported, is assigned to the case.
· It may be at least partly an artefact of the methodology used to assign speakers to social classes.· A teacher had assigned the class to make a composition by taping personal objects into a notebook.· Hence each person was assigned to a liability class based on age.
· Ory and his deputy, Gen. Gustave Houphouët Koassi, were assigned to other unspecified duties.· The other captain, assigned to aviation-liaison duty with Grunt Six, sat forward on the floor with his back to us.· Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants, then to those of the statistical clerks.· A citizen assigned to jury duty is jailed for throwing a temper tantrum before a judge.· He would be accompanied by the police officer assigned to liaison duties with the coroner's office.· Managers must be able to establish priorities and assign duties.· All disciplinary problems are brought before the Committee and the two prison wardens previously assigned these duties no longer perform them.· After Mass they would begin their assigned housework duties, cooking, washing or administration.
· Study participants were randomly assigned to two different groups.· For each of these problems a problem report will be entered into the computer system and assigned to the Computer Group Manager.· These measures include being assigned to clients in groups of three or more.
· After graduation she was assigned a job in her home town.· After graduating, she was assigned a job at a local company.· They were suspect in the eyes of Communist officials, and assigned jobs they didn't like.· Capable accountants and auditors should advance rapidly; those having inadequate academic preparation may be assigned routine jobs and find promotion difficult.· This was an important right, because business agents assigned the jobs.
· The plaintiff agreed to lease a property to Lunnis, who assigned this equitable lease by way of mortgage.· Reform of the law which makes businesses still liable for their successors' defaults even after they have assigned the lease.
· Even variant pronunciations of the same word may on occasion be assigned contrasting meanings.· Furthermore, Ishmael is alive because he alone did not assign specific meanings to events.· We are arrested, fascinated, by a convulsion of sound to which we are unable to assign a meaning.
· Communication Each team to assign one member as Relationship Manager.
· A Part Number equal to the module name is automatically assigned for each module name reserved.· So you create a single-record form layout on the screen, assigning names to fields and then selecting attributes from a menu.· If a class is assigned a name or other designation, that too must be given in the statement.
· When her calluses turned raw, she requested another work station and was assigned to inspecting tiny numbers on color-coated wires.· The Changes Log is described at Section 6 assign a change reference number to the change request.· Networks assign the number pattern to a category.· It is roughly to this period that we may assign a number of the burials excavated by Folke Bergman near Lopnur.· The proposal is assigned a project number and project officer.· The pupils' details were entered on to disk, each pupil was assigned a unique number and bar-codes were produced.· In the next we assign each task a number.
· Ross previously was assigned as executive officer of the amphibious assault ship Essex.· Brown assigned most of his officers to neighborhood beats.
· The staff is assigned to the project on a full-time or part-time basis.· The proposal is assigned a project number and project officer.· In a fast-moving organization like Intel, a person is likely to be hired and assigned to a project.· The EMs in it were not getting assigned to change management projects as easily as planned.
· Adjoudji Hamadjoda, Minister of Livestock, was assigned temporary responsibility for the ministry.· In public, the Clinton administration is declining to assign responsibility for the long deadlock.· This facility will be used to record the progress of each problem and to assign responsibility for solving the problem.· Physician and theologian join hands in assigning responsibility.· Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.· For example, the project left open whether coaches would be assigned responsibility for specific teams.
· This appears from the role assigned to the Bundestag, elections and political parties in the constitutional system.· Basically, it consists of: Traditional caste systems in which roles are assigned at birth and enforced by social sanctions.· But the roles are assigned and Andrew knows his role so well now.· That role was assigned to older children, not always with their approval.· The importance of reason in rationalism needs no further elaboration; our concern here is the equally important role assigned to doubt.· Women are either absent, or present fulfilling for the most part the roles which were assigned to women in that society.· These reasons do not justify the righteous role which they assign to the avenging vigilante.· Whatever the different roles assigned, Palin invariably personified a sweatily ingratiating Milquetoast; and so forth.
· Thus, the speakers represented by tables 6.2 and 6.3 were assigned range scores of 5 and 0 respectively.· The third segment might look very like a and be assigned a high score on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic features.· This comparison was made by two scientists studying the node-link-node triples and assigning a quality score to each triple.
· Chapter 6 considers the question of how tasks can be assigned to levels within and between topics.· What sorts of tasks we can assign to computers has been clear for many years.· It proved quite impossible to carry out the task assigned without involvement in the still fluid political situation.· Whatever the tasks assigned various ministers, they are intended for the well-being of the church, not its destruction.· Sanitation: A special task force shall be assigned to clean up all vacant lots and trashed areas throughout the deprived areas.· In the second phase, evaluation tasks will be assigned to laboratories throughout the 12 member states.
· Although assigned as teachers, only a minority of them had been professionally trained as teachers.
· Let us now return to the question of assigning lexical units to lexemes.
· Every copy of the Issue which is sent out has a unique Issue identifier assigned by the user.· You can set up menus which are assigned to specific users and passwords.
· It can be used to assign a value to a variable or as part of a test.· Why do we assign less value to the cognitive environment than to the health of water, soil, and stone?· Laws of assignment An occam process may assign values to its variables.· Why should women value their traditional roles as important when society assigns theta little value?· It could also be argued that the power to tax should be assigned a value in a governmental balance sheet.· However, we believe there are limitations in the extent to which such impacts can be assigned strict quantitative values.· Cleaning the house and preparing meals were assigned a value.
· From this a distribution of the word scores assigned to the target words was derived.· Can teachers assign articles with vulgar words?· However, the rules by which such indices are assigned to words are not totally reliable.· A probability was assigned to any word string that could be formed from the spoken input.· The score assigned to the word by the syntax analyser is shown beneath the word.· The modification is a summation of the probabilities assigned to a word in each window position in which the word exists.
WORD FAMILYnounassignmentverbassign
1to give someone a particular job or make them responsible for a particular person or thingassign somebody a task/role I’ve been assigned the task of looking after the new students.assign somebody to something Jan’s been assigned to the Asian Affairs Bureau.assign somebody to do something Madison was assigned to investigate a balloon accident.assign somebody something Assign each student a partner.2to give a particular time, value, place etc to something: How much time have you assigned for the meeting?assign something to something A code was assigned to each batch of work.3to give money, equipment etc to someone to useassign something to somebody A personal bodyguard had been assigned to her.assign somebody something They assigned me a small room.