Usually means: Assigning a specific purpose or label.
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  1. designating: Merriam-Webster
  2. designating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. designating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Designating, designating: Wordnik
  5. designating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. designating: Wiktionary
  7. Designating, designating: Dictionary.com
  8. designating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Designating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Designating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. designating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. designating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. designating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. designating: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. designating: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Designating: Sports Definitions

(Note: See designate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (designate)

adjective:  Designated; appointed; chosen.
adjective:  (UK) Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.
verb:  To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
verb:  To call by a distinctive title; to name.
verb:  To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
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