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| v. (social) | 1. assign, delegate, depute, designate | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). |
| ~ mandate | assign authority to. |
| ~ cast | select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet.; "He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona" |
| ~ post | assign to a post; put into a post.; "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu" |
| ~ cast | assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors.; "Who cast this beautiful movie?" |
| ~ devolve | pass on or delegate to another.; "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital" |
| ~ task | assign a task to.; "I tasked him with looking after the children" |
| ~ place | place somebody in a particular situation or location.; "he was placed on probation" |
| ~ regiment | assign to a regiment.; "regiment soldiers" |
| ~ reassign, transfer | transfer somebody to a different position or location of work. |
| ~ delegate, depute | transfer power to someone. |
| ~ mandate | assign under a mandate.; "mandate a colony" |
| ~ elevate, kick upstairs, promote, upgrade, advance, raise | give a promotion to or assign to a higher position.; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work" |
| ~ demote, kick downstairs, relegate, bump, break | assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" |
| ~ appoint, charge | assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" |
| ~ place | assign to (a job or a home). |
| v. (possession) | 2. allot, assign, portion | give out.; "We were assigned new uniforms" |
| ~ appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve, allow | give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" |
| ~ allocate, apportion | distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose.; "I am allocating a loaf of bread to everyone on a daily basis"; "I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip" |
| ~ deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, mete out, parcel out, shell out, lot, administer, allot, deal | administer or bestow, as in small portions.; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. ascribe, assign, attribute, impute | attribute or credit to.; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" |
| ~ pass judgment, evaluate, judge | form a critical opinion of.; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"; "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" |
| ~ impute | attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness" |
| ~ impute | attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness" |
| ~ carnalize, sensualize | ascribe to an origin in sensation. |
| ~ credit | give someone credit for something.; "We credited her for saving our jobs" |
| ~ reattribute | attribute to another source. |
| ~ anthropomorphise, anthropomorphize | ascribe human features to something. |
| ~ personate, personify | attribute human qualities to something.; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" |
| ~ credit, accredit | ascribe an achievement to.; "She was not properly credited in the program" |
| ~ blame, charge | attribute responsibility to.; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience" |
| ~ externalise, externalize, project | regard as objective. |
| ~ interiorise, interiorize, internalise, internalize | incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal.; "internalize a belief" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. assign, set apart, specify | select something or someone for a specific purpose.; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" |
| ~ choose, pick out, select, take | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" |
| ~ dedicate | set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church. |
| ~ detail | assign to a specific task.; "The ambulances were detailed to the fire station" |
| v. (consumption) | 5. assign, put | 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" |
| ~ apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize | put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" |
| ~ repose | put or confide something in a person or thing.; "These philosophers reposed the law in the people" |
| v. (possession) | 6. arrogate, assign | make undue claims to having. |
| ~ arrogate, lay claim, claim | demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to.; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident" |
| v. (possession) | 7. assign | transfer one's right to. |
| ~ transfer | cause to change ownership.; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. assign, attribute | decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" |
| ~ pass judgment, evaluate, judge | form a critical opinion of.; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"; "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" |
| ~ classify, relegate | assign to a class or kind.; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" |
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