Assign(n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Assign(v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Assign(v. t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
Assign(v. t.) 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.
Assign(v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Assignability(n.) The quality of being assignable.
Assignable(a.) Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
Assignation(n.) The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
Assignation(n.) An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
Assignation(n.) A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
Assigned(imp. & p. p.) of Assign
Assigner(n.) One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
Assigning(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assign
Assignment(n.) An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
Assignment(n.) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
Assignment(n.) The writing by which an interest is transferred.
Assignment(n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
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