Assigner

to give or allocate; allot:
to -ssign rooms at a hotel.
to give out or announce as a task:
to -ssign homework.
to appoint, as to a post or duty:
to -ssign one to guard duty.
to designate; name; specify:
to -ssign a day for a meeting.
to ascribe; attribute; bring forward:
to -ssign a cause.
law. to transfer:
to -ssign a contract.
military. to place permanently on duty with a unit or under a commander.
law. to transfer property, especially in trust or for the benefit of creditors.
usually, -ssigns. law. a person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred; :
my heirs and -ssigns.
historical examples

the gospel is at once the -ssigner of our tasks and the magazine of our strength.
dictionary of quotations from ancient and modern, english and foreign sources james wood

verb (mainly transitive)
to select for and appoint to a post, etc: to -ssign an expert to the job
to give out or allot (a task, problem, etc): to -ssign advertising to an expert
to set apart (a place, person, time, etc) for a particular function or event: to -ssign a day for the meeting
to attribute to a specified cause, origin, or source; ascribe: to -ssign a stone cross to the vikings
to transfer (one’s right, interest, or t-tle to property) to someone else
(also intransitive) (law) (formerly) to transfer (property) to trustees so that it may be used for the benefit of creditors
(military) to allocate (men or materials) on a permanent basis compare attach (sense 6)
(computing) to place (a value corresponding to a variable) in a memory location
noun
(law) a person to whom property is -ssigned; -ssignee
v.

c.1300, from old french -ssiginer (13c.) “-ssign, set (a date, etc.); appoint legally; allot,” from latin -ssignare “to mark out, to allot by sign, -ssign, award,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + signare “make a sign,” from signum “mark” (see sign). main original use was in english law, in transferences of personal property. general meaning “to fix, settle, determine, appoint” is from c.1300. related: -ssigned; -ssigning.