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Designee (noun) means a person who has been chosen for a particular role or task.

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A person who has been chosen for a particular role or task.

"The bill authorizes the President's designee, to access funds that the Congress has already appropriated for the auto industries." — , Automakers to remain under pressure for months yet (2008)

"The commissioner of the Texas Department of Public Health is proposing that the commissioner of health, or the designee of the commissioner of health, be able to institute quarantine measures for people with AIDS." — Kim Westheimer, Boston Quarantine Proposal Withdrawn (1985)

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