The phrase "assigned to spend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is designated or allocated a specific amount of time or resources to spend on a task or project.
Example: "The team was assigned to spend two weeks on the research project to gather necessary data."
Alternatives: "designated to allocate" or "tasked with utilizing".
I was assigned to spend a few days following the challenger around the Bay Area, trolling for "color".
The fact that people who were assigned to spend money on others ended up happier than people who were assigned to spend money on themselves allows us to draw the causal conclusion that spending on others causes greater happiness than spending on oneself.
However, as several astute readers pointed out (e.g., mjl and Nik), we also conducted an experiment in which participants were randomly assigned to spend the money on themselves or to spend the money on others.
The unease sets off at the start when Constable Billy Tyler is assigned to spend a night on guard duty at the mortuary where the murderer's body lies, awaiting burial.
At the request of HAROLD O. LEVY, the interim schools chancellor, a corporate executive will be assigned to spend the day with each of the school system's 43 superintendents on April 13, the same day that 1,100 volunteers are expected to participate in the annual Principal for a Day program.
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the late 1990s, Dr. Dunn, the happiness expert, experienced the annual ritual, akin to the Hogwarts Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter series, whereby first-year students are randomly assigned to spend the rest of their college years in one of 12 dormitories or houses.
Republican members of the commission objected to the weak proposals to reduce health-care spending while Democrats recoiled at the weight assigned to spending cuts, in particular for Social Security.
The funds from Pell Grants and subsidized loans, by being assigned to students to spend on academic institutions they have chosen rather than being packaged as institutional grants for colleges to dispense, have empowered students — for good but also for ill.
Preference based utility weights from a study [24] with participant demographics similar to our cohort were assigned to cycles spent in the ICU and 6 months immediately post-discharge.
The patients assigned to RITH spent an average of 28.59 minutes (SD 7.53) per treatment session with a physiotherapist.
To calculate QALYs, preference based utility weights were assigned to cycles spent in the ICU and 6 months immediately post discharge.
