The act of transferring or assigning ones rights under a contract or agreement to another
To make an option seller perform his obligation to assume a short futures position (as a seller of a call option) or a long futures position (as a seller of a put option)
attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
v t (a variable) to change the value of the variable in a binding that has already been established See the special operator setq
select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
to transfer the tenant responsible for a rental unit, which will occur when one tenant leaves before a lease expires and the lease is assumed by the incoming tenant See sublet
If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do. When I taught, I would assign a topic to children which they would write about Later in the year, she'll assign them research papers When teachers assign homework, students usually feel an obligation to do it