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noun identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
noun the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
noun the act of designating or identifying something
originFrom Middle English designacioun, from Latin dēsignātiō, and partly (especially in sense 5) from design + -ation. By surface analysis, designate + -ion.
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