Legislate vs Assign - What's the difference?
legislate | assign | Related terms |
To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
(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
Legislate is a related term of assign.
As verbs the difference between legislate and assign
is that legislate is to pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws) while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.As a noun assign is
an assignee.legislate
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Verb
(en-verb)- ''If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.
Derived terms
* legislation * legislative * legislator * legislatureassign
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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.
