Tra từ assign - Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

assign UK US [əˈsaɪn] verb transitive [ assigns assigning assigned ]

CHOOSE

1. <A > often passive 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.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Giving, providing and supplying
2. <A > If you assign a time for a job or activity, you decide it will be done during that time
• Have you assigned a day for the interviews yet?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Decisions and deciding
3. If you assign a characteristic to something, you state that it has it.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Analysing and evaluating ↑Assessing and estimating value
4. to decide a reason for something
• Detectives have been unable to assign a motive for the murder.
• The report assigned the blame for the accident to inadequate safety regulations.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Defining and explaining

• Every available officer will be assigned to the investigation.
• The textbooks were assigned by the course director.
• Part of the group were assigned to clear land mines.
• 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.

SEND

5. <A > to send someone somewhere to do a job
• She was assigned to the newspaper's Berlin office.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Recruiting staff, applying for and accepting jobs

• She was assigned to the Paris office.
• All the team were assigned to Poland.

COMPUTING

6. specialized to put a value in a particular position in the memory of a computer
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Computer concepts

GIVE LEGALLY

7. legal to give property, money or rights using a legal process
• Her property was assigned to her grandchildren.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Giving, providing and supplying ↑Inheriting and bequeathing
Phrasal Verb: assign somebody to something