How to pronounce "assign"

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The study we published last year, called "The Network of Global Corporate Control,"

was the first extensive analysis of economic networks.

The study went viral on the Internet

and it attracted a lot of attention from the international media.

This is quite remarkable, because, again, why did no one look at this before?

Similar data has been around for quite some time.

What we looked at in detail was ownership networks.

So here the nodes are companies, people, governments, foundations, etc.

And the links represent the shareholding relations,

so shareholder A has x percent of the shares in company B.

And we also assign a value to the company given by the operating revenue.

So ownership networks reveal the patterns of shareholding relations.

In this little example, you can see a few financial institutions

with some of the many links highlighted.

Now, you may think that no one looked at this before

because ownership networks are really, really boring to study.

Well, as ownership is related to control,

as I shall explain later,

looking at ownership networks

actually can give you answers to questions like,

who are the key players?

Phonetic Breakdown of "assign"

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Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:

/əˈsaɪn/

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IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

AH0 S AY1 N

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Definition of "assign"

Pronunciation: /əˈsaɪn/

Noun

An assignee.
A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
An assignment or appointment.
A design or purpose.

Verb

To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

Example: "to assign a day for trial"
To appoint or select someone for some office.

Example: "to assign counsel for a prisoner"
To allot or give something as a task.
To attribute or sort something into categories.
To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
To give (a value) to a variable.

Example: "We assign 100 to x."

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Words That Sound Like "assign"

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