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    • assign :give out
      • We were assigned new uniforms

    • assign :attribute or credit to
      • We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare|People impute great cleverness to cats

    • assign :select something or someone for a specific purpose
      • The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise

    • assign :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

    • assign :decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
      • The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class

    • assign :give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

      • assign :make undue claims to having

        • assign :transfer one's right to

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