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Difference Between Assign and Reassign

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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

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