REASSIGN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they reassign ... he / she / it reassigns

Past simple: reassigned

Past participle: reassigned

-ing form: reassigning

Meaning:

Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work

Synonyms:

reassign; transfer

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "reassign" is one way to...):

assign; delegate; depute; designate (give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reassign"):

second (transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment)

exchange (hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

reassignment (assignment to a different duty)