designate
de zuhg nayt
- v assign a name or title to
- v give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- v indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- v decree or designate beforehand
- v design or destine
- s appointed but not yet installed in office
- Tim Geithner, Secretary of Treasurer-designate Lisa Jackson, Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency-designate Senator Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior-designate.
- Participants in the meeting will include Melody Barnes, Director-designate, Domestic Policy Council; Carol Browner, Assistant-designate to the President for Energy and Climate .
- Said Secretary of Commerce-designate Malcolm Baldrige, in the only semblance of lively comment: "I haven't even found the front door to the Department of Commerce yet.