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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of assign.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
Etymologies
- Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, from Latin assignāre : ad-, ad- + signāre, to mark (from signum, sign; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots).
Examples
“Because of demonstrable problems in assigning appropriate risk weights, Basel III also resurrects, as a kind of backstop, the old-fashioned leverage ratio: Tier 1 capital divided by total assets, with no risk weighting.”
The Wall Street Journal: Two Cheers for the New Bank Capital Standards
“But not to worry; Republicans are experts in assigning blame for their created messes to Democrats.”
“I am not interested in assigning blame but would like there to be some sort of effort to curtail this kind of behavior.”
“The Globe & Mail's Christie Blatchford jumps to the defence of 69-year-old male Justice Douglas Cunningham, who found it necessary, in assigning little weight to the testimony of Nepean-Carleton Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod, to refer to her personal life: "She was commuting regularly to Toronto for her work, leaving her husband and child in Ottawa." [emphasis added]”
“SPSID = 3065&SPID = 212&DB_OEM_ID = 400 Did that influence KSU officials in assigning him to another dorm rather than excluding him from KSU housing immediately.”
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“Math majors still have trouble setting up word problems, MBAs cannot specify all the basic components for a specific production activity, and Economists have difficulty in assigning weight to various elements of the economic matrix. lgl”
Barbell Labor Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I agree that one should excersise caution in assigning motives to any criminal activity before all the facts are in but could you help me understand this post: jmunny says:”
Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.
“But I also recognize the danger in assigning a naturalism to it.”
“Jonas has no interest in assigning blame or even judging his father, despicable as the man was, a paranoid brute whom Jonas and his mother hoped to escape in the way you'd want to escape a bad storm.”
The Washington Post: Dinaw Mengestu's 'How to Read the Air,' reviewed by Ron Charles
“You therefore have a stake in assigning a higher precedence to your version of morality.”
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