0 past simple and past participle of assign
1 to give a particular job or piece of work to someone:
[ + two objects ] UN troops were assigned the task of rebuilding the hospital.
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.
2 to send someone somewhere to do a job:
She was assigned to the newspaper's Berlin office.
3 to put a value in a particular position in the memory of a computer
4 to give property, money, or rights using a legal process:
Her property was assigned to her grandchildren.
Every available officer will be assigned to the investigation.
Each trainee is assigned a mentor who will help them learn more about the job.
We were assigned an interpreter for the duration of our stay.
All the team were assigned to Poland.
The order of the assessments (medical and psychological) was randomly assigned within each subject group.
