to assign
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6.3
- verb
- /əˈsaɪn/
- Formal
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ceder
- I am just simply going to assign my rights to buy the property to the investor for a fee.
- assign rights
- assign legal rights
However, before it finds a company, these rights are assigned and they're allowed to be trading on stock exchanges.
- However, before it finds a company, these rights are assigned and they're allowed to be trading on stock exchanges.
- JC Penney later assigned its interest in the lease to Market Street, which was the plaintiff and that now the appellant.
Examples
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The rest of your assets, approximately $600,000, will be assigned to me.
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The Canadian subsidiaries had formed Canadian Radio Patents Limited and assigned their patents for radio and television production to that company.
Academic text (1994) -
Well, I suppose I could agree to a split, as long as... as you assign me all the rights to every painting ever produced.
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If you assign your assets to your mother no one will be able to touch them.
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After all, it is the debtor who decides to assign priority over its assets, by contract or grant of a security interest.
Academic text (2017) -
JC Penney later assigned its interest in the lease to Market Street, which was the plaintiff and that now the appellant.
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She decided to assign her property rights to a new owner after the sale.
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The lawyer will assign the legal documents to reflect the change in ownership.
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If you assign your inheritance to your partner, they will have control over the assets.
Synonyms
296
2.8
Give something to someone because you have to
266
6.8
To give property or rights to another person
241
3.4
To make someone else the owner of something
157
7.0
To give ownership or rights to property using a legal document
39
8.2
To officially give control, ownership or rights to someone else
6
5.5
To officially give property or rights to someone
4
6.4
To give property to someone using a signed paper
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7.7
To give property or rights to someone else
1
7.4
Give ownership of property to another person using a legal document
1
6.6
To give land to someone so they legally own it
To give the ownership of property or rights to another person
To change the name on the official papers of a car or house
Antonyms
How Legal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Assign comes from Latin signare 'to mark' and is related to sign, and in law giving a right to another person is like officially marking that right as theirs. So to assign property or rights is to transfer them to someone else.