assign: Meaning and Definition of

as•sign

1. to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
2. to give out or announce as a task: to assign homework.
3. to appoint, as to a post or duty: to assign one to guard duty.
4. to designate; name; specify: to assign a day for a meeting.
5. to ascribe; attribute; bring forward: to assign a cause.
6. to transfer: to assign a contract.
7. to place permanently on duty with a unit or under a commander.

1. to transfer property, esp. in trust or for the benefit of creditors.

1. Usually,a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee: my heirs and assigns.