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Antonyms for assignment

  • unemployment

Definition of assignment

  • late 14c., "order, request, directive," from Old French assignement "(legal) assignment (of dower, etc.)," from Late Latin assignamentum , noun of action from Latin assignare (see assign). Meaning "appointment to office" is mid-15c.; that of "a task assigned" (to someone) is from c.1848.
  • noun responsibility, task
  • noun selecting or setting apart
  • You've got your berth, you've got your money, you're going to get your passport, and you've got your assignment.
  • Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
  • It was at noon of the third day he had been at work when John was given his first assignment.
  • Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson
  • One of the detectives detailed to this assignment was Hyman Ginsburg.
  • Extract from : « From Place to Place » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • He had given me the assignment of putting antigrav units into production.
  • Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
  • And it can show us that a nation's assignment of a mission to itself is not a sudden growth.
  • Extract from : « Chosen Peoples » by Israel Zangwill
  • This reversed the assignment, and the rear room became Miss Sanford's.
  • Extract from : « Marion's Faith. » by Charles King
  • Then, with quick change of subject, "But I haven't congratulated you on your assignment."
  • Extract from : « Under Fire » by Charles King
  • Your assignment, Mr. President, has been exciting and challenging.
  • Extract from : « The Nation's River » by United States Department of the Interior
  • The assignment of everyone to a definite post has raised the general spirit.
  • Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
  • A corporation may make an assignment just as may an individual.
  • Extract from : « Up To Date Business » by Various

Synonyms for assignment

  • appointment
  • apportionment
  • appropriation
  • assignation
  • attribution
  • authorization
  • consignment
  • designation
  • determination
  • distribution
  • specification
  • stipulation

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Synonyms of assign

  • as in to task
  • as in to allot
  • as in to cede
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Thesaurus Definition of assign

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • share (out)
  • parcel (out)
  • redistribute
  • reapportion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • deprive (of)
  • appropriate
  • pass (down)
  • expropriate
  • single (out)

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How is the word assign different from other verbs like it?

Some common synonyms of assign are ascribe , attribute , credit , and impute . While all these words mean "to lay something to the account of a person or thing," assign implies ascribing with certainty or after deliberation.

In what contexts can ascribe take the place of assign ?

The synonyms ascribe and assign are sometimes interchangeable, but ascribe suggests an inferring or conjecturing of cause, quality, authorship.

How is attribute related to other words for assign ?

Attribute suggests less tentativeness than ascribe , less definiteness than assign .

Where would credit be a reasonable alternative to assign ?

In some situations, the words credit and assign are roughly equivalent. However, credit implies ascribing a thing or especially an action to a person or other thing as its agent, source, or explanation.

When is it sensible to use impute instead of assign ?

While in some cases nearly identical to assign , impute suggests ascribing something that brings discredit by way of accusation or blame.

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verb as in select and give a responsibility

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  • hold responsible

verb as in set apart for a reason

  • appropriate

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verb as in attribute responsibility or achievement

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It is designed to listen to meetings with multiple participants and will parse discussion patterns to produce informative synopses and assign post-meeting action items.

Such randomized, double-blinded controlled trials randomly assign patients to receive a drug or a placebo, and don’t reveal to participants or doctors who is getting which.

That AI could pore over an astronaut’s symptoms and then recommend medical tests, make diagnoses and assign treatments.

So I rose beyond cleaning, to working as an operational dispatcher for cabin services in the American Airlines traffic control center, assign cleaning crews to each incoming aircraft.

Ideally, the Mars spaceship would be equipped with artificial intelligence that could consider an astronaut’s symptoms, recommend medical tests, make diagnoses and assign treatments.

Now the Kremlin will assign more loyal people to rule the region, mostly military leaders.

When we assign a primitive “not me” status to another individual or social group, it can—and does—take us down a destructive path.

Other folks can debate and assign blame for “who lost Iraq.”

Renee Richardson knows she'll likely never be able to assign blame for her son's death—she's done fighting for that.

Girls are directed through several pages of this until they are asked to assign the guy a series of pre-decided adjectives.

The designs of Russia have long been proverbial; but the exercise of the new art of printing may assign them new features.

With what honest pride did John Smith, the best farmer of them all, step to the fore and assign to each man his place!

If the lessee die, his executor or administrator can assign the remainder of his term.

As the lessee may assign or sublet unless forbidden, so may the lessor part with his interest in the leased premises.

If offered any dish of which you do not wish to partake, decline it, but do not assign any reason.

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On this page you'll find 166 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assign, such as: accredit, allow, appoint, attach, authorize, and charge.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Assign antonyms

What is the opposite word for assign .

  • keep select and give a responsibility, set apart for a reason
  • fire select and give a responsibility
  • deny select and give a responsibility
  • withhold set apart for a reason
  • retain set apart for a reason
  • refuse select and give a responsibility, set apart for a reason
  • reject select and give a responsibility
  • hold set apart for a reason
  • disorganize
  • appropriate
  • expropriate

Antonyms for assign

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] give out.

  • unauthorized
  • assign (English)
  • assigner (Old French (842-ca. 1400))

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] select something or someone for a specific purpose.

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] attribute or credit to.

  • stay in place
  • electronic mail
  • anthropomorphize
  • reattribute
  • externalise

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] attribute or give.

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] make undue claims to having.

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.

  • deglycerolize
  • pass judgment

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] transfer one's right to.

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