desk officer
- n a military officer who is not assigned to active duty
desk dictionary
- n an abridged dictionary of a size convenient to hold in the hand
designation
- n identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- n the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
- n the act of designating or identifying something
designatum
- n something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression