assigns

noun

An assignee.

(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.

(obsolete) A design or purpose.

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

verb

(transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.

(transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.

(transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.

(transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.

(transitive, law) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.

(transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.

(LGBTQ) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.

Roots

signumsign- · Latin · mark, sign

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Where does assigns come from?

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