Assign vs. Reassign — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Assign and Reassign
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Definitions
Assign
To select for a duty or office; appoint
Firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park.
Reassign
To assign to a new position, duty, or location
Reassigned the ambassador to a new post.
Assign
To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate
Assigned the new species to an existing genus.
Reassign
To place in a different category or class.
Assign
To give out as a task; allot
Assigned homework to the class.
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Reassign
(transitive) To assign again or anew.
The offending employees were reassigned after the incident.
Assign
To ascribe; attribute
Assigned blame for the loss to a lack of good defense.
Reassign
(transitive) To transfer back what was previously assigned.
Assign
To match or pair with
Assign a value to each of the variables.
Reassign
To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.
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Assign
(Law) To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.
Reassign
Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
Assign
An assignee.
Assign
(transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
To assign a day for trial
Assign
(transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
To assign counsel for a prisoner
Assign
(transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
Assign
(transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
Assign
(LGBT) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
Assign
To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
Assign
To give (a value) to a variable.
We assign 100 to x.
Assign
An assignee.
Assign
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Assign
(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
Assign
(obsolete) A design or purpose.
Assign
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
In the order I assign to them.
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
He assigned to his men their several posts.
Assign
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.
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned.
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
Assign
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Assign
To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust.
Assign
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so.
Assign
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Assign
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Assign
Give out or allot;
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
Make undue claims to having
Assign
Transfer one's right to
Assign
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;
The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
