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assigning

verb

present participle of assign
1
as in entrusting
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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2
as in allotting
to give as a share or portion each new employee is assigned a cubicle and a computer

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3
as in ceding
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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4
as in appointing
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 assigning Regulations under this law require us to complete the investigation prior to assigning any discipline in the manner. — Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 Getting an accurate count of immigrants of various statuses is useful when assigning resources for public health emergencies or natural or human-made disasters. — Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 The study was observational, meaning researchers looked at existing activity patterns rather than assigning participants to specific walking routines. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Mathematicians vividly illustrate these functions by assigning colors to different output values and then making a color map of the inputs that yield those outputs. — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026 But assigning something as basic as a letter to something as complicated as the economy seems way too reductive. — Paddy Hirsch, NPR, 8 Sep. 2026 Multiple devices – your laptop, your phone, your smart TV – share the same spectrum without a central authority assigning each one a dedicated slot. — Aylin Yener, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026 The important thing is defining the criteria before assigning a score. — James Fratzke, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 Users reported problems with Outlook, while OpenAI said users may experience problems starting or continuing tasks in ChatGPT Work, temporarily disabling two of the modern office's favorite methods of assigning more work. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assigning
  1. entrusting
  2. allotting
  3. ceding
  4. appointing
  5. tasking
  6. allocating
  7. transferring
  8. nominating
Verb
  • The Giants are entrusting Bryce Eldridge, their 21-year-old rookie, with the job of protecting Devers in the lineup.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now Norvell enters 2026 firmly on the hot seat, entrusting his future to another transfer quarterback.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of entrusting
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  • Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • The framework proposes allotting $20 million of it to the Rays.
    — Nicolas Villamil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
Definition of allotting
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  • Trump, though, has warned of a slowdown in AI development ceding the technological arms race to China.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Its critics typically are those who fear ceding their own traditional advantages to others.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of ceding
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  • Another important step is appointing internal champions who can guide adoption across teams.
    — Tal Dagan, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • In English football’s relatively short history of appointing sporting directors, or directors of football, very few have generated such scrutiny or discussion as Hughes did at Liverpool.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of appointing
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  • British online fashion retailer Asos has named Jon Bennett menswear product director for Asos Design, tasking the retail veteran with overseeing the strategy and performance of its in-house menswear business.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The church created the Center at West Park in 2016, tasking the nonprofit to run and maintain the building, raise funds to repair its facade and keep the rent from tenants.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of tasking
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  • That type of short-term control is what Uber reportedly invoked, allocating $1,500 per user per month, mainly for coding assistants.
    — Chris Stegh, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Chicago helped pioneer the modern listing marketplace that has led to enormous gains in allocating houses efficiently.
    — Tomas J. Philipson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of allocating
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  • Finance leaders should periodically compare the cost of transferring risk with the company’s ability to retain and finance portions of it.
    — Randy Sadler, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Among these moves were Nico Paz joining Como, striker Gonzalo Garcia transferring to Fulham and Victor Munoz’s move to Liverpool from Osasuna, when Madrid owned 50 per cent of his rights.
    — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of transferring
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  • Voters also will be nominating candidates for the entire state Legislature, where Republicans hold a roughly 40-vote majority in the 400-member House and outnumber Democrats in the Senate 16-8.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • And in the event that Chris Hansen is indeed the role that finally lands the actor a nomination, in a very literal sense, the Academy will also be nominating him for The Odyssey.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of nominating

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“Assigning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assigning. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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