transitionverb

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Giving, providing and supplying
accommodate
accommodate someone with something
administer
administration
afford
arm someone with something
be good for somethingidiom
dish
hand something around
hand something back
hand something down
hand something in
outfit
provision
put something on
re-equip
re-equipment
reassignment
rebid
render

reassign | Business English

reassign
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌriːəˈsaɪn/us
WORKPLACE, HR
to give an employee a different job, or to arrange for an employee to work in a different place:
It is unclear if the district will hire more mental-health professionals or reassign existing personnel.
She has been reassigned to the U.S. embassy in Paris for a six-month period.
LAW
to decide that a legal matter will be dealt with by a different judge or police department:
The Justice Department took the unusual step of reassigning the investigation.
be reassigned to sbBy order of the Appeals Court, the case will be reassigned to another judge.

Examples of reassign

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The fact that the latent vowel receives stress during truncation demonstrates that stress is reassigned after truncation.
Sound morphing is achieved by interpolating the time-varying frequencies, amplitudes and bandwidths of corresponding partials obtained from reassigned bandwidth-enhanced analysis of the source sounds.
More importantly, the librarian reassigned the shelf number of the second book at the end of this very inventory.
In the face of change, hill-climbing can proceed as normal, pausing only to reassign variables whose assigned elements have been removed.
With the formation of the perfective, however, stress is reassigned in both forms and the supposedly unstressed latent vowel receives stress.
At the onset of motion, the star ting locations of the dots were randomly reassigned.
With this much at stake, permission to reassign material to different categories was likely to be an institutional decision.
The bipartition identified by the tree reassigns 5 individuals.
To do this the algorithm is careful about how it associates a face with each point and how it reassigns the points.
Many of these have been reassigned, or synonymized with other ichnogenera.
Each species was then randomly reassigned to these quadrats such that the total frequency of each species was maintained.
These clusters were visually reviewed and were modified to reassign components to clusters and to remove obvious outliers.
The 12 verbs were randomly assigned to the 12 masculine nouns and randomly reassigned to the 12 feminine nouns.
These two individuals then exchange their assignments, so that each individual is reassigned to the population to which the other was previously assigned.
We then reassign the transitional state to a different role, that of cancellation, as a semantics for branching time.
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