Designate
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Designated; appointed; chosen.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested. To call by a distinctive title; to name. 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.
Delegate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to authorize someone to be a delegateto commit a task to someone, especially a subordinateto give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputya representative at a conference, etc.an appointed representative in some legislative bodiesa type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
Example sentence: The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.