assign🔊

To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.

To appoint or select (someone) for some office.

To allot or give (something) as a task.

To attribute or sort (something) into categories.

(LGBTQ) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.

(law) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.

(programming) To give (a value) to a variable.

An assignee.

(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.

(obsolete) A design or purpose.