Definition of assign

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Assign (v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors..

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Pretext :: Pretext (n.) Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.
Consign :: Consign (v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.
Primage :: Primage (n.) A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain..
Quartering :: Quartering (n.) Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
Number :: Number (n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building..
Asymptote :: Asymptote (n.) A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance..
Default :: Default (n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc..
Privy :: Privy (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse..
Assigned :: Assigned (imp. & p. p.) of Assig.
Peculiarize :: Peculiarize (v. t.) To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession..
Antedate :: Antedate (v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution..
Appropriable :: Appropriable (a.) Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use..
Appropriate :: Appropriate (v. t.) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy..
Apportionment :: Apportionment (n.) The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property..
Assigner :: Assigner (n.) One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions..
Assignation :: Assignation (n.) The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship..
Chapelry :: Chapelry (n.) The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.
Apportion :: Apportion (v. t.) To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments..
Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent..
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