assign

verb

1. 1

   select something or someone for a specific purpose

   The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise

2. 2

   attribute or credit to

   We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare

   People impute great cleverness to cats

3. 3

   decide as to where something belongs in a scheme

   The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class

4. 4

   attribute or give

   She put too much emphasis on her the last statement

   He put all his efforts into this job

5. 5

   transfer one's right to

6. 6

   give out

   We were assigned new uniforms

7. 7

   make undue claims to having

8. 8

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