Meaning & use

reassign

verb·Academic

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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