Definitions For Designate

verb

• Design or destine
• Decree or designate beforehand
• Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
• Assign a name or title to
• Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
• To officially choose (someone or something) to do or be something : to officially give (someone or something) a particular role or purpose
• To call (something or someone) by a particular name or title
• To be used as a name for (something or someone)

adjective

• Appointed but not yet installed in office