Meaning & use
unassign
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To remove someone or something from an assigned role, task, or position.
See it in a sentence
The manager decided to unassign him from the project after the delay.
You can unassign a ticket in the software if it was given to the wrong team member.
A note on using this word
Unassign is a relatively recent back-formation, common in project-management and software contexts, reversing the action of 'assign.'
Words with a similar meaning
deassignremove
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