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assign (something) to (someone)

To designate someone as responsible for doing something, or as responsible for having done something. Oh, I already assigned that project to Nicole. Since I was driving when we got into the accident, they assigned the blame to me. I tried not to make eye contact with the boss in the meeting, and she still assigned the budget report to me. Ugh!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2024 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

assign someone or something to someone or something

to designate someone or something as belonging to someone or something else. They assigned the new car to Roger. They assigned the new worker to the mail room.
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assign something to someone

to attribute something to someone; to blame something on someone. We were forced to assign the blame to Robert. They assigned the responsibility for the accident to the driver of the car.
See also: assign, to
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Note that college.edu and SSD.gov are also identifiers, and an assigner can be an image file.
(492) In this context, the magical means of obtaining money also comes to symbolise more than the old trope of money's bewitching, uncanny influence over individuals and national economies; it also denotes the obscuratory nature of money, its ability (as sign system and assigner of values) to subsume subject and object within its self-referential operation.
But what floats in the reader's mind is not a scene where Morton calls the seat assigner a vapid brat.
Il les a fait assigner a l'Officialite de Chartres," Arrest du Parlement rendu a l'audiance de la Grand' Chambre le 31.
When we hold student conferences in our classes, we are the teacher, in the writers' minds especially, the assigner and evaluator of the writing in question" (41).
Mais les dominateurs ne sont pas les seuls a assigner des identites.
Prive de volonte propre, il obeira mecaniquement a son maitre et oeuvrera le plus souvent en qualite de domestique dans sa demeure, cette domesticite comptant parmi les issues para mortem les plus frequentes pour les zombi, s'ils ne se voient assigner des taches en rapport avec l'agriculture -- en milieu rural -- ou avec le commerce -- en milieu urbain (3).
Lufthansa Systems implemented its NetLine/Plan and NetLine/Sched solutions at Qatar Airways, including optimization modules Fleet Assigner and Hub Optimizer and further supplementary modules.
This extensional nucleus gives the referential interpretation to the noun phrase, but it depends on a case and role assigner to be legitimized.
Alster 1978: 18 finds the reference to Enki's determination of their destiny "ironic." Bottero and Kramer 1989: 157 likewise see a contrast: "Enki veut les leur assigner en <<arretant leur destin>>.
Even if the government became the sole assigner of public shame, some scholars would still applaud.
(6) As the imperial decree explained, 'il appartient specialement A la France, dont l'industrie doit tant aux beaux-arts, de leur assigner, dans la prochaine exposition universelle, la place qu'ils meritent' (decree of 22 June 1853, in Exposition des produits de l'industrie de toutes les nations, p.
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