ASSIGNED Synonyms: 147 Similar and Opposite Words

assigned

verb

past tense of assign

as in entrusted

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to assigned the class with the task of finding something in the state constitution they felt needed changing

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as in allotted

to give as a share or portion each new employee is assigned a cubicle and a computer

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as in ceded

to give over the legal possession or ownership of assigned all rights to and royalties from the song to the Boy Scouts

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expropriated

as in appointed

to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty the mayor assigned the panel with the task of luring a major sports franchise to the city

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Recent Examples of assigned When the Chicago office, which had about fifty lawyers, was closed, all of its cases, totalling in the thousands, were assigned to a single lawyer in Denver. —

Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026 In his order, Nunley recounted the attorney’s claim he’d been assigned more than 300 nearly identical cases in the last three months, all of immigrants in detention who argued they were being held without cause. —

Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026 In order to change venue, a motion should be filed with the judge assigned to the case. —

Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 19 Apr. 2026 The crew assigned to Ax-4 includes Commander Peggy Whitson, Mission Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla of India, Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański of ESA/Poland, and Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu of Hungary. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026 In game theory, various scenarios are considered, and each is assigned a numerical value, for example, between –10 and 10. —

Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026 Search warrants found evidence of 62 contacts between Mafi and Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security officials, according to an FBI agent assigned to the Iran Counterintelligence Squad out of the Los Angeles office. —

Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026 Dateline contacted the Arkansas Department of Public Safety State Crime Laboratory to request an interview with the medical examiners assigned to the case. —

Edie Peffley, NBC news, 19 Apr. 2026 Even so, the San Diego federal court remained a popular venue for such cases, in part on the chance that it would be randomly assigned to Benitez. —

Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026

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For Terry, there’s a deep pride in the endowment that’s been entrusted to her care.

— Brian McCollum, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
But really, this just comes at the expense of the mission that we've been entrusted to perform, on behalf of the American taxpayers — and really, the space-loving community from all across the world.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 14 Apr. 2026