REASSIGN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reassign mean? 

• REASSIGN (verb)
  The verb REASSIGN has 1 sense:

1. transfer somebody to a different position or location of work

  Familiarity information: REASSIGN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASSIGN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reassign    ... he / she / it reassigns   
Past simple: reassigned   
Past participle: reassigned   
-ing form: reassigning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

reassign; transfer

Hypernyms (to "reassign" is one way to...):

assign; delegate; depute; designate (give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reassign"):

second (transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment)

exchange (hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

reassignment (assignment to a different duty)