assigning
Sayuh-SYN-ing/əˈsaɪnɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of assign.
The manager spent the afternoon assigning tasks to the new hires.
Assigning blame too quickly often makes a conflict harder to resolve.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. With a form of be it builds the progressive (the court is assigning the case); without one it works as a noun, standing as subject, object or after a preposition (before assigning roles). Because every use of assign is transitive, both jobs normally carry a direct object: tasks, blame, a category, or in law a lease or right being transferred to someone else.
assigning is a form of assign
assign, verb: To allot or give something to a person or group as a task or duty. Full entry
- Spelling
- assign → assigning: add -ing
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