ASSIGNING Synonyms: 147 Similar and Opposite Words

assigning

verb

present participle of assign

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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Relevance

as in allotting

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

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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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expropriating

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 Customers who prefer a hands-on budgeting system that requires assigning every dollar a purpose may be happier with YNAB, while those looking for more customizable budgeting, household planning and financial goal tracking may prefer Monarch Money. — Catherine Collins, USA Today, 10 July 2026 The team announced the signing of RHP Durbin Feltman to a minor league contract, assigning him to Triple-A Memphis. — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Police departments around the country are assigning more officers to monitor social media, with the goal of showing up at takeover sites before the kids do. — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026 Difficult decisions included assigning Yager to the AHL and exposing Chibrikov and Zhilkin to waivers. — Murat Ates, New York Times, 9 July 2026 Target's new attendance point system Target will start tracking unexcused tardiness and absences for its store and warehouse workers in September, assigning point values to violations and terminating any employee who hits 12 points within a year. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 30 June 2026 Professors are discouraged from assigning books, supposedly in order to lower students’ financial burden, even as the school has raised various other fees. — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026 District officials declined to provide the correspondence with Carvalho, instead assigning the request to the district’s Public Records Act unit, where some requests for records have taken years to resolve. — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026 Decluttering counters by assigning a home for items makes tidying up quicker and easier. — Tessa Cooper, The Spruce, 27 June 2026

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Vance is still the default nominee, and Trump entrusting him with an Iran deal that could make or break his presidency is a sign of Vance’s clout, the person added.

— Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 28 June 2026
Brisson is arguably the sport’s biggest agent, and Trocheck — after nearly getting dealt at the March trade deadline — is entrusting him to facilitate a desirable move this summer.

— Peter Baugh, New York Times, 24 June 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

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When the Spanish settlers decamped for Cuba in 1763 after ceding Florida to the English, the few surviving Tequesta, their numbers decimated by 200 years of captivity and slavery, conflict and ill treatment, are believed to have departed with them.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
As Jimmy is looking for options to simultaneously cut costs and jettison the property entirely, Sydney is trying to figure out how to do a dinner service with a pantry that’s nearly empty and a former mentor/partner/colleague, in Carmy, who is very bad at actually ceding control.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026

Definition of ceding

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This year, the county board has affirmed its intention to use little to no reserves to balance the fiscal year 2027 budget, tasking members with finding other ways to balance it.

— Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
Last year, New Jersey passed a law allowing digital driver's licenses and tasking the state's Motor Vehicle Commission with developing and implementing them.

— Joe Brandt, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of tasking

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Targeting the brownfield window For executives building technology strategies and investors allocating capital, the greenfield narrative where AI-native factories are built from scratch describes a small fraction of the actual market.

— Amit Chaturvedy, Fortune, 8 July 2026
The daily calendar displays a week at a time, allocating categories for birthdays, anniversaries and countdowns, and allowing you to color-code these events and even set alarms as reminders.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 July 2026

Definition of allocating

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He’s gravitated toward Democrats with a record of performing well statewide, and party leaders fear nominating someone too far outside the mainstream in Maine, one of the top Senate battlegrounds of the 2026 cycle.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 7 July 2026
While these victories may not matter in deep-blue districts, Liasson says some Democrats are worried that swing states and districts could be nominating candidates who are too far left to win.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 6 July 2026

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