<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.</li><li>to give out or announce as a task: to assign homework.</li><li>to appoint, as to a post or duty: to assign one to guard duty.</li><li>to designate; name; specify: to assign a day for a meeting.</li><li>Synonyms: determine, fix</li><li>to ascribe; attribute; bring forward: to assign a cause.</li><li>Synonyms: offer, show, advance, allege, adduce</li><li>Law: to transfer: to assign a contract.</li><li>Military: to place permanently on duty with a unit or under a commander.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>Law: to transfer property, especially in trust or for the benefit of creditors.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Usually assigns.</li><li>Law: a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; assignee: my heirs and assigns.</li></ul>