reassign (C1)
verb
Pronunciation: /ˌriː.əˈsaɪn/
Definition
To assign a person or task to a new role, location, or responsibility.
Examples
The company decided to reassign the marketing director to the international branch.
Management will reassign the pending files to a different department by tomorrow.
She was reassigned to the night shift after the schedule change.
How to Use reassign
- reassign someone to [role/place] (prepositional phrase)
- moving a person to a new position or location — "They will reassign him to the London office."
- reassign [task] to [person] (prepositional phrase)
- giving a task to a different person — "Please reassign the project to the junior analyst."
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