Assign vs Outsource - What's the difference?
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(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
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(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.
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(lb) To allot or give something as a task.
*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)
*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .
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*:He assigned to his men their several posts.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.
To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
To give (a value) to a variable.
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An assignee.
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
* Shakespeare
(chiefly, US, business, management) To transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.
As verbs the difference between assign and outsource
is that assign is to designate or set apart something for some purpose while outsource is to transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.As a noun assign
is an assignee.assign
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Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
outsource
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(Outsourcing)Verb
(outsourc)- They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.
