English-Spanish translations for assign

• asignar
  No podemos asignar nuevas tareas a la UE y luego no financiarlas. We cannot assign new tasks to the EU and then not pay for them.
  Ha habido una confusión a la hora de asignar el micrófono. There was confusion there in assigning the microphone.
  El señor Barroso pronto asignará las carteras a los nuevos Comisarios. Mr Barroso will soon be assigning portfolios to the new commissioners.
• ceder
• designar

Definition of assign

• To designate or set apart something for some purpose
• To appoint or select someone for some office
• To allot or give something as a task
• To attribute or sort something into categories
• To give to a variable
• An assignee
• A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance
• An assignment or appointment

Examples

• to assign a day for trial
• to assign counsel for a prisoner
• We assign 100 to x

Related words

• assignation
• assignment
• assigned
• assignee
• assignable
• assignor
• reassign
• assignat
• unassignable