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assigner

4.2

A person who gives tasks or responsibilities to others

noun
/əˈsaɪnər/

: asignador

The assigner delegated tasks to the team according to their strengths and skills.

Examples

The teacher acted as the assigner, giving each student a specific role in the group project.
But governments also promote production and trade because they are assigners and protectors of property rights and provide for the enforcement of private contracts.

Academic text (1997)
As the assigner of the project, she ensured that everyone understood their responsibilities.

Synonyms

delegator

vsassigner

1 4.7

A person who gives tasks to other people

tends to assign tasks without fully handing over responsibility

tasker

vsassigner

1 4.9

A person who gives work to other people

is used for anyone who gives tasks or responsibilities in any context

allocator

vsassigner

1 6.4

A person or thing that gives out resources like money and time

refers only to giving tasks or responsibilities, not distributing resources

Antonyms

receiver

213 2.7

A person who gets something someone sends, gives, or throws

How Senior

manager

∞ 1.6

supervisor

346 2.8

assigner

4.2

coordinator

178 3.7

teamer

1 3.5

Surface Forms

assigner singular

assigners plural

Morphology

assigner = assign (transparent) = assign + er

Standard agent nominalization from 'assign' with '-er'; meaning 'person who gives an assignment' is directly predictable.

Etymology

Assigner comes from the verb assign, from ad- 'to' and signare 'to mark', sharing the same root as sign. Think of an assigner as someone who 'marks' a task or role for a person, so an assigner is the person who gives out jobs or responsibilities.