verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
apportion/assign blame formal (= find someone to blame for something )
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He seemed to want to apportion blame for her death.
assign a task (= give someone a task to do )
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People were assigned different tasks.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
randomly
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In the Health Study, individual children were randomly assigned either vitamin A or placebo.
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Babies were randomly assigned to one of two groups.
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Patients are randomly assigned to treatments even if the doctor suspects that one form of treatment might be better.
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Subjects were randomly assigned to receive a placebo or the cholesterol-lowering drug pravastatin.
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Those with moderate risk are randomly assigned to either an oral insulin or a placebo.
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The suit against Proposition 209 was randomly assigned to another judge, Vaughn Walker.
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The male students were randomly assigned to one of four groups.
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Study participants were randomly assigned to two different groups.
■ NOUN
area
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Although conservation matters are generally assigned on an area basis, many councils now have their own conservation officers.
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Uneven as the crowd was, my path had taken me close to an outer edge near the earliest assigned parking area .
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Ward learning resources During her training, a student is assigned to various clinical areas for periods of six to twelve weeks.
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If we preserve both standards of review we then have to assign different subject-matter areas to each test.
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Cases were assigned to areas according to their residence address at diagnosis as defined for the national cancer registration scheme.
case
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We checked into it and Sun has two engineers assigned to the case .
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After they filed their report, a detective was assigned to the case to investigate.
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So is Joe Mantegna, as the homicide detective assigned to the case , telling her to let the law handle it.
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Rooney, is assigned to the Hastings case .
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A detective, more than a week after the incident is reported, is assigned to the case .
class
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It may be at least partly an artefact of the methodology used to assign speakers to social classes .
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A teacher had assigned the class to make a composition by taping personal objects into a notebook.
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Hence each person was assigned to a liability class based on age.
duty
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Ory and his deputy, Gen. Gustave Houphouët Koassi, were assigned to other unspecified duties .
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The other captain, assigned to aviation-liaison duty with Grunt Six, sat forward on the floor with his back to us.
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Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants, then to those of the statistical clerks.
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A citizen assigned to jury duty is jailed for throwing a temper tantrum before a judge.
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He would be accompanied by the police officer assigned to liaison duties with the coroner's office.
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Managers must be able to establish priorities and assign duties .
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All disciplinary problems are brought before the Committee and the two prison wardens previously assigned these duties no longer perform them.
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After Mass they would begin their assigned housework duties , cooking, washing or administration.
group
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Study participants were randomly assigned to two different groups .
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For each of these problems a problem report will be entered into the computer system and assigned to the Computer Group Manager.
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These measures include being assigned to clients in groups of three or more.
job
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After graduation she was assigned a job in her home town.
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After graduating, she was assigned a job at a local company.
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They were suspect in the eyes of Communist officials, and assigned jobs they didn't like.
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Capable accountants and auditors should advance rapidly; those having inadequate academic preparation may be assigned routine jobs and find promotion difficult.
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This was an important right, because business agents assigned the jobs .
lease
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The plaintiff agreed to lease a property to Lunnis, who assigned this equitable lease by way of mortgage.
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Reform of the law which makes businesses still liable for their successors' defaults even after they have assigned the lease .
meaning
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Even variant pronunciations of the same word may on occasion be assigned contrasting meanings .
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Furthermore, Ishmael is alive because he alone did not assign specific meanings to events.
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We are arrested, fascinated, by a convulsion of sound to which we are unable to assign a meaning .
member
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Communication Each team to assign one member as Relationship Manager.
name
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A Part Number equal to the module name is automatically assigned for each module name reserved.
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So you create a single-record form layout on the screen, assigning names to fields and then selecting attributes from a menu.
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If a class is assigned a name or other designation, that too must be given in the statement.
number
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When her calluses turned raw, she requested another work station and was assigned to inspecting tiny numbers on color-coated wires.
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The Changes Log is described at Section 6 assign a change reference number to the change request.
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Networks assign the number pattern to a category.
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It is roughly to this period that we may assign a number of the burials excavated by Folke Bergman near Lopnur.
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The proposal is assigned a project number and project officer.
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The pupils' details were entered on to disk, each pupil was assigned a unique number and bar-codes were produced.
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In the next we assign each task a number .
officer
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Ross previously was assigned as executive officer of the amphibious assault ship Essex.
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Brown assigned most of his officers to neighborhood beats.
project
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The staff is assigned to the project on a full-time or part-time basis.
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The proposal is assigned a project number and project officer.
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In a fast-moving organization like Intel, a person is likely to be hired and assigned to a project .
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The EMs in it were not getting assigned to change management projects as easily as planned.
responsibility
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Adjoudji Hamadjoda, Minister of Livestock, was assigned temporary responsibility for the ministry.
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In public, the Clinton administration is declining to assign responsibility for the long deadlock.
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This facility will be used to record the progress of each problem and to assign responsibility for solving the problem.
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Physician and theologian join hands in assigning responsibility .
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Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.
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For example, the project left open whether coaches would be assigned responsibility for specific teams.
role
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This appears from the role assigned to the Bundestag, elections and political parties in the constitutional system.
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Basically, it consists of: Traditional caste systems in which roles are assigned at birth and enforced by social sanctions.
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But the roles are assigned and Andrew knows his role so well now.
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That role was assigned to older children, not always with their approval.
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The importance of reason in rationalism needs no further elaboration; our concern here is the equally important role assigned to doubt.
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Women are either absent, or present fulfilling for the most part the roles which were assigned to women in that society.
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These reasons do not justify the righteous role which they assign to the avenging vigilante.
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Whatever the different roles assigned , Palin invariably personified a sweatily ingratiating Milquetoast; and so forth.
score
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Thus, the speakers represented by tables 6.2 and 6.3 were assigned range scores of 5 and 0 respectively.
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The third segment might look very like a and be assigned a high score on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic features.
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This comparison was made by two scientists studying the node-link-node triples and assigning a quality score to each triple.
task
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Chapter 6 considers the question of how tasks can be assigned to levels within and between topics.
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What sorts of tasks we can assign to computers has been clear for many years.
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It proved quite impossible to carry out the task assigned without involvement in the still fluid political situation.
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Whatever the tasks assigned various ministers, they are intended for the well-being of the church, not its destruction.
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Sanitation: A special task force shall be assigned to clean up all vacant lots and trashed areas throughout the deprived areas.
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In the second phase, evaluation tasks will be assigned to laboratories throughout the 12 member states.
teacher
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Although assigned as teachers , only a minority of them had been professionally trained as teachers.
unit
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Let us now return to the question of assigning lexical units to lexemes.
user
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Every copy of the Issue which is sent out has a unique Issue identifier assigned by the user .
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You can set up menus which are assigned to specific users and passwords.
value
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It can be used to assign a value to a variable or as part of a test.
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Why do we assign less value to the cognitive environment than to the health of water, soil, and stone?
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Laws of assignment An occam process may assign values to its variables.
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Why should women value their traditional roles as important when society assigns theta little value?
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It could also be argued that the power to tax should be assigned a value in a governmental balance sheet.
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However, we believe there are limitations in the extent to which such impacts can be assigned strict quantitative values .
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Cleaning the house and preparing meals were assigned a value .
word
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From this a distribution of the word scores assigned to the target words was derived.
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Can teachers assign articles with vulgar words ?
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However, the rules by which such indices are assigned to words are not totally reliable.
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A probability was assigned to any word string that could be formed from the spoken input.
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The score assigned to the word by the syntax analyser is shown beneath the word.
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The modification is a summation of the probabilities assigned to a word in each window position in which the word exists.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After her promotion took effect, she was assigned a research job.
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He was asked to assign two of his employees to the inventory control department.
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The job of producing a development program was assigned to the junior minister.
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You have been assigned the task of keeping the records up to date.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Academic freedom does not protect materials, discussions, or comments that are not relevant to the assigned subject.
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As a general rule, the costs of pledging and assigning are about equal.
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I have continued to stay at the Abbey of Holy Rood involved in the matter assigned to me.
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Ory and his deputy, Gen. Gustave Houphouët Koassi, were assigned to other unspecified duties.
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The ticket counter folks refused to assign us a seat, sending us to the gate.
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What was she assigned to do that day if you know?