Betekenis van assign In het Nederlands

• 0 to give a particular job or piece of work to someone:

  • [ + two objects ] UN troops were assigned the task of rebuilding the hospital.

  • The case has been assigned to our most senior officer.

  • Have you assigned a day for the interviews yet?

  • Each visitor to the site chooses an online alter ego, which is assigned a name.

  • Detectives have been unable to assign a motive for the murder.

  • The report assigned the blame for the accident to inadequate safety regulations.

• 1 to send someone somewhere to do a job:

  • She was assigned to the newspaper's Berlin office.

• 2 to put a value in a particular position in the memory of a computer

• 3 to give property, money, or rights using a legal process:

  • Her property was assigned to her grandchildren.

• 4 to give to someone a job or responsibility, or to decide on a person for a particular job or responsibility:

  • We assigned Alberto the task of watching the children.

  • Judith was assigned to the office in Washington, D.C.

  • We’re assigning seats on a first-come, first-serve basis.

• 5 to give a particular job or piece of work to someone:

  • assign tasks/responsibilities/objectives, etc. (to sb) The document outlines how the organization will be run and how research tasks will be assigned.

  • assign sb to do sth They assigned him to analyse computer records to look for signs of fraud.

• 6 to send someone to work in a particular place or do a particular job:

  • assign sb to sth Each individual was assigned to a team representing a major stakeholder.

  • be assigned to sth I've been assigned to the finance department on a temporary basis.

  • Over the past decade, the organization has doubled its number of managers assigned abroad.

• 7 to give something, for example a particular amount of time or money, for a particular purpose:

  • assign sth to sth They assigned a large sum of money to research and development.

  • Locals are frustrated that of the $110bn assigned by Congress in relief aid, only $53bn has actually been spent.

  • assign sth to sb Each employee will be assigned an individual work area, with a desk and shelving.

• 8 to decide that something has a particular value or level:

  • assign sth to sth Because most of the companies in which the fund has invested are private, the fund's managers have had to assign them a market value.

  • Buyers are being trained to use a spreadsheet to assign a cost to every step of completing a sale.

• 9 to give your rights to a property, etc. to someone else, either by selling them or preparing a legal document as an agreement:

  • Assigning ownership rights to employees can help keep certain costs down.

• 10 if a computer, website, etc. assigns something, it gives a value to it so that a connection can be made between the data and the user:

  • Internet Service Providers automatically assign IP addresses to their customers.