ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Assignable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /əˈsaɪnəbl̩/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Assignable is an adjective meaning Capable of being assigned (all senses).

Meaning

Capable of being assigned (all senses).

More Meanings

  1. Capable of being specified or shown.

Example Sentences

In many programming languages, numeric values are not assignable to string variables.
First, we were forced to infer era of service from birthdate, resulting in a relatively small number of respondents assignable to the post-EO era veterans condition.
While, on the one hand, industry is limited by capital, so on the other, every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry ; and this without assignable limit.
Now, certainly, in a general view, the purpose of the Platonic soldier was the same, but with this important difference—that his fighting condition was not needed on one or two days consecutively, but on many days, and not against a day punctually assignable, but against a season or period perhaps of months, quite indeterminate as to its beginning, end, or duration.

Synonyms for assignable

Depending on context, synonyms include negotiable, transferable, transferrable, alienable, conveyable.

Antonyms for assignable

Common opposites include nonassignable, unassignable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transferable, transferrable, conveyable, alienable, negotiable, attributable.

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