Usually means: Allocates or designates resources, tasks.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word assigns:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. assigns: Merriam-Webster
  2. assigns: Collins English Dictionary
  3. assigns: Vocabulary.com
  4. Assigns, assigns: Wordnik
  5. assigns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. assigns: Wiktionary
  7. assigns: Dictionary.com
  8. assigns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Assigns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. assigns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. assigns: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. assigns: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Assigns: Legal dictionary
  5. assigns: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assigns: Encyclopedia

(Note: See assign as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (assign)

verb:  (transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
verb:  (transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
verb:  (transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
verb:  (transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
verb:  (LGBTQ) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
verb:  (transitive, law) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
verb:  (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
noun:  An assignee.
noun:  (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
noun:  (obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
noun:  (obsolete) A design or purpose.
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