Designate and Place

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Designate verb - To pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty.

Usage example: he has yet to designate his successor as head of the firm

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Place is a synonym for designate in assign topic. In some cases you can use "Place" instead a verb "Designate".

Place verb - To pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty.

Usage example: placed the recent college grad in the company's research and development division

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Designate is a synonym for place in order topic. Sometimes you can use "Designate" instead a verb "Place", if it concerns topics such as assign.

Nearby Words: placed, placement, placing, placer, placet

character	designate character	place character
time	designate time	place time
characters	designate characters	place characters
world	designate world	place world
Other words: story, child, enemy, orders.

If a writer needs an easy way to designate heroes and villains, he can place a war in his world's recent backstory, usually within a generation or two.

Source: The War Just Before
You just get that sucker to the designated place at the designated time, and I will gladly designate his ass... for dismemberment!

Source: Film / The Last Dragon
In the Caesar games, citizens will build their own houses (in areas you designate), but you have to place everything else in your city: Markets, farms, granaries, workshops, etc.

Source: Command & Conquer Economy

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