what does assign mean here...synonym please?
Because most of the companies in which the fund has invested are private, the fund's managers have had to (assign) them a market value.and also in this sentence ( assign a value to each of the variables)

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what does assign mean here...synonym please?
Because most of the companies in which the fund has invested are private, the fund's managers have had to (assign) them a market value.and also in this sentence ( assign a value to each of the variables)

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In the 1st sentence, to assign means to give a goal to the object.
In the 2nd one, it means to set.

Often, "assign" is used as in "assign a task/duty to someone". Here it's similar to allocate
Sometimes it's similar to "reserve for", like in "we assign large sums of money to travel budgets".

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It basically means to GIVE  a value