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Definition of Assigning
1. Noun. The act of distributing something to designated places or persons. "The first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
Specialized synonyms: Allocation, Storage Allocation
Generic synonyms: Distribution
Derivative terms: Assign
Definition of Assigning
1. Verb. (present participle of assign) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assigning
1. assign [v] - See also: assign
Literary usage of Assigning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Society As I Have Found It by Ward MacAllister (1890)
"assigning Guests at Dinner— The Boston fashion dying out — The approved ...
We are returning to the old habit of assigning the guests in the drawing-room. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"... by steadily pursuing that wise and orderly maxim, of assigning to every thing
capable of ownership a legal and determinate owner.(23) CHAPTER II. ..."