All 5 Uses of
designate
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Life rafts were stocked with radios and better provisions, boats were set out along the paths flown by military planes, and searches were handled by designated rescue squadrons equipped with float planes.
p. 87.3 *designated = assigned (for a particular purpose)
- The military had officially declared Louie, and all the other crewmen, dead. ... The notice had been generated as a bureaucratic matter of course, a designation made for all missing servicemen after thirteen months had passed.
p. 219.5 *designation = official status
- Watanabe was assigned to Omori and designated the "disciplinary officer."
p. 234.4designated = assigned
- When the designated firefighters assembled under the freezing downpour, the Bird punched several of them in the face, ran through barracks shouting and punching other men, then ordered every man in camp to line up outside.
p. 264.3
- On December 24, 1948, as the occupation began to wind down, General MacArthur declared a "Christmas amnesty" for the last seventeen men awaiting trial for Class A war crimes, the designation for those who had guided the war.
p. 390.9designation = official term (signifying something)
Definitions:
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(1)
(designate as in: designated driver) assign someone or something for a particular purpose
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(2)
(designate as in: designated by a star on the map) indicate or signify (show something in a particular way)