assign

verb1 of 2

to give someone a particular job or something to do

• “I was assigned to paint an office in our company.”Tatoeba
• “Assigning numbers to abstract things is a dangerous business.”Tatoeba

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noun2 of 2

A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.