• select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher Assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
• attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
• decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist Assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
• attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
• transfer one''s right to
• give out or allot; "We were Assigned new uniforms"
• make undue claims to having
• give an Assignment to (a person) to a post, or Assign a task to (a person)

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