Reassigners

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Individuals who allocate or designate tasks, roles, or resources anew or differently than before
2. People responsible for changing the assignment of duties or positions to other parties
3. Those who change or redistribute previously assigned responsibilities or resources to others

Etymology: "Reassigners" is the plural of "reassigner," and the word is built from three familiar parts. The prefix "re-" means "again" or "anew," and the suffix "-er" marks a person who performs an action. The middle part, "assign," is the surprising one. It comes through Old French "assigner" from Latin "assignare," which combined "ad," meaning "to," with "signare," meaning "to mark with a sign." The original sense was literally to mark something out for a particular person, much like stamping an object with a seal to show who it belongs to. Put together, a reassigner is someone who marks out duties or resources for someone again, often with a different result. The word is transparent in structure, so its meaning follows directly from its parts, and it is best read as a modern formation built on the older verb rather than as a term with a long separate history.

Synonyms: reallocators, reassigners

Antonyms: assigners