assigned

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. appointed to a post or duty“assigned personnel”“assigned duties”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Assign \As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assigned; p. pr. & vb. n. Assigning.] [OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L. assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum mark, sign. See Sign.]

1.To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. [1913 Webster]

In the order I assign to them.— Loudon.[1913 Webster]
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.— Southey.[1913 Webster]
He assigned to his men their several posts.— Prescott.[1913 Webster]

2.To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial. [1913 Webster]

All as the dwarf the way to her assigned.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.— De Quincey.[1913 Webster]

3.(Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. [1913 Webster]

To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. --Kent. [1913 Webster]

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