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assign English

Meaning assign meaning

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Definitions in simple English

assign

When you assign a job to someone, you tell them to do it. That teacher always assigns too much homework. To attribute or sort something into categories. No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor's life.

assign

give out We were assigned new uniforms give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) select something or someone for a specific purpose The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise (= impute, attribute) attribute or credit to We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare People impute great cleverness to cats (= 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 decide as to where something belongs in a scheme The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class transfer one's right to (= arrogate) make undue claims to having

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Simple sentences

I have to assign more men to that work.
Tom couldn't decide who to assign the job to.

Movie subtitles

I'll assign tax districts to you tomorrow.
Murchison must be really out of his mind to assign Carmichael to you.
You'll keep them here. You'll assign a troop to keep them here.
Assign the men to their posts.
Have the yeoman cut orders. turning over executive officer duties to MacDougall. and assign Randall as navigator.
Now really, Madame, if we were to assign a policeman to every one of these situations..
Mrs Garp will assign you quarters.
Tom will take you to the men give you a canteen and assign you to a quarter boss.
Confiirm Caesar as permanent commander of the garrison. and assign two legions. to intercept and destroy Spartacus at the city of Metapontum!
IF YOU LOSE THIS ASSIGN MENT, WE'LL HAVE TO DROP YOU.
Simply that you are to assign me my assassin, but only he and i will know the way that i'm to die. That will be acceptable, mr.
When you've finished I'll assign you more.
He'll act as liaison between our governments and assign men to accompany you on your details.
We could easily assign three missiles to every target and still have an effective reserve force for any other contingency.
As for your pursuit of the cyborg, I'll assign another squad to that.
So I'm going to assign you to a parish.
I will now assign you to your duties.
Pitt will assign you to your duties and your quarters.
Uh-huh. - You will get the men together and assign them.
We have a bed open in a 3-man ward, i'll assign him there.
They'll be here soon. - You'll keep them here. You'll assign a troop to keep them here.
What role do you assign the Cossacks then?
We know who rents the bank locker, so I'll assign Taguchi and Ogawa to that.
Gentlemen. I wish to.. Assign you your lessons for tomorrow.
They're signing to assign the flats!
I am not going to rest until I have exposed this scoundrel. if I have to assign every man in my organization.
I'll assign a man to check it.
Assign a dozen men. Check every art store and antique shop in the neighborhood.
Assign a man to each one.
Lorenzo, assign them to Menicuccio's boat.
I can only design the tests and assign the work to each department.
I'll assign you a guard.
Confirm Caesar as permanent commander of the garrison. and assign two legions. to intercept and destroy Spartacus at the city of Metapontum!

News and current affairs

Nations could set the more ambitious goal of limiting the long-term change in the earth's temperature, and then assign emissions rights among countries in such a way that will eventually limit temperature increases to an acceptable level.
People happily, and reliably, assign numbers to their understandings of everything from complex machines to biological systems to natural phenomena such as the tides; but these ratings are usually far higher than their actual knowledge.
Blame is easy enough to assign, but misses the point.
It is they, and they alone, who may assign authoritative meaning to their breasts, their bodies, and the difficult events related to them.
It has also shifted aid policy in directions that assign priority to areas where the returns to US efforts are relatively minuscule.
The trick, Zhou stressed, is to assign weights to each of the four goals in the multi-objective policy function.
The challenge is to acknowledge the costs (as we are now doing with pollution) and assign them to people who can - and can be compelled to - pay for them.
Above all, when will we agree to assign real costs to the energy we use, especially carbon-based resources?

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