Crossword clues for assigned
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assign \As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assigned; p. pr. & vb. n. Assigning.] [OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L. assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum mark, sign. See Sign.]
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To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
In the order I assign to them.
--Loudon.The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
--Southey.He assigned to his men their several posts.
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To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned.
--Spenser.It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
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(Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate.
--Kent.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: assign)
WordNet
adj. appointed to a post or duty; "assigned personnel"; "assigned duties" [ant: unassigned]
Usage examples of "assigned".
Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, was assigned Jaluit and Mili in the southern Marshalls and Makin in the northern Gilberts.
Every available aircraft was gassed and loaded with its assigned assortment of bombs and ammunition.
Wildcats were assigned to the Army and placed on ready duty at Wheeler Field.
The Wildcats climbed sharply, forming into two sections of CAP and the Dauntlesses fanned out on their assigned search sections.
There he was given roast yam, fish and coconut, and assigned his own palm-thatched hut where for days he slept, waking only to eat and sleep again.
The six were assigned to intermediate air patrol and at the end of their patrol were to rendezvous with Martin and fly back to Bomber One.
Big E came to remember that their ship was a carrier of aircraft, that those aircraft were organized into air groups and that no one air group could be assigned permanently to one carrier.
John Crommelin had divided the officers and men who wanted leave into three groups, and assigned each group a thirty-day-leave period.
He also put an officer in charge, assigned a medical officer, arranged drivers and vehicles and set up a bus schedule.
Forty per cent of her men were new and freshly fitted into her department and division organizations, assigned to watches, battle stations, bunks, sections and duties.
Makin, a single major-caliber antiaircraft gun at the foot of one of the piers on the lagoon opened up long enough to be located and have five planes of the second strike assigned specifically to its extinction.
Phillips, the skipper of Torpedo Six, who was assigned a liaison mission over the island.
But both VB-6 lieutenants assigned the photo mission carried it out alone and unprotected.
Marks, with a four-plane division of Hellcats, was orbiting bis assigned station twenty miles north-northeast of the force at 6,000 feet with radios silent.
Opposite the seaplane bases, six TBFs loaded with fragmentation and incendiary bombs peeled off, angled down through the tracers of light and medium AA and plastered their assigned targets.