assign
verb
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to select something or someone for a specific purposeβThe teacher assigned one student to lead the class in the exercise.βset apart
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to decide as to where something belongs in a schemeβThe biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class.β
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to attribute or giveβI assigned them their due.βput
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to transfer one's right toβI assigned everything to my heirs.β
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to give outβWe were assigned new uniforms.βportion
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to confer responsibility for a task, or for holding the duties of a postβI was assigned to the class down the hall.βdelegate