Meaning & use
reassign
To give someone or something a new role, task, or location, different from the one before.
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After the reorganization, the manager reassigned several employees to the new marketing team.
The airline reassigned our seats after the flight was changed to a smaller plane.
A note on using this word
Reassign is common in workplace and administrative contexts, typically taking a person or resource as its object.
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