Usually means: Assign a specific status or role.
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  1. designate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. designate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. designate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. designate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. designate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Designate, designate: Wordnik
  7. designate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. designate: Wiktionary
  9. designate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. designate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. designate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Designate, designate: Dictionary.com
  13. designate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Designate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. designate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. designate: Rhymezone
  17. designate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. designate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. designate: Free Dictionary
  20. designate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. designate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. designate: Legal dictionary

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  1. designate: Encyclopedia

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  1. designate: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Designated; appointed; chosen.
adjective:  (UK) Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.
verb:  To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
verb:  To call by a distinctive title; to name.
verb:  To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

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