Crossword clues for assigning
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. (present participle of assign English)
WordNet
n. the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" [syn: assignment]
Usage examples of "assigning".
Her people heard over the loud--speakers the voices of the senior pilots assigning targets, the orders to attack and to withdraw and the shouts, curses and sobs of men delivering death in the face of death.
The first was choosing me to command Capital Fleet and not assigning a different commissioner to keep an eye on me.
Bin Ladin and Atef wasted no time in assigning the Hamburg group to the most ambitious operation yet planned by al Qaeda.
In this conception, the NCTC should plan actions, assigning responsibilities for operational direction and execution to other agencies.
Actually assigning troops, reducing number of divisions, filling to strength, adding weapons, and attaching artillery.
Captain never even seems to have considered assigning this to anyone else.
Nor was he the sort to risk the failure of a mission by assigning anyone to command it but the person he thought best qualified to carry it out.
Command insist on assigning such a high-profile, volatile case to a junior Staff JAG like you?
Just the log assigning Ted as counsel and his hours spent on the project.
This time he took command of the display, tapping on vectors and assigning threat levels.
In addition to tankers and medical and repair ships, HQ is assigning two complete service squadrons of fast freighters for the specific purpose of assuring us an adequate supply of the new missile pods.
Erthek from Fort Brithik, now that chan Lyrosk is there, and assigning him to the same relay station as Lamir.
Of course there were notable exceptions, but in general the American officers handing down the orders to attack and assigning the objective had no idea what it was like at the front.
Odyssey, the great pattern of matrimonial love and constancy, assigning the glory of her husband as the only source of her affection towards him.
Duke of Austria, and several other princes, announcing a resolution similar to that of Philip, and in no modified terms, assigning, for their defection from the cause of the Cross, the inordinate ambition and arbitrary domination of Richard of England.