The phrase "a designation on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a label, title, or identification associated with something, such as a document or object.
Example: "The report had a designation on the cover indicating it was confidential."
Alternatives: "a label on" or "an identifier on".
He pointed to a designation on the grinder and the coffee was ground for him.
The internal debate has been so divisive that the United States intelligence community has been assigned to prepare classified analyses on the possible repercussions of a designation on Pakistan.
The phrase "type I civilization" is a designation on the Kardashev scale, named for Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev developed in the 1960s and described in English in his 1985 paper On the Inevitability and the Possible Structures of Supercivilizations.
I began hearing stories of vast tracts of land in the area being snapped up by Ali Tajieddine (sic), a Shia businessman who had made a fortune in Africa and whose alleged connections to Hezbollah in December 2010 earned him a designation on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of terrorist financiers.
The reason why writers such as Karl Polanyi saw the enclosure of the commons as "a revolution of the rich against the poor" is because enclosing commons was a process of imposing a designation on land from a position of power on a resource that had become a communal space over long periods of local use.
The campaign is centered on a designation of San Antonio as "The City of Yellow Roses" — a mash-up of roses in honor of Valentine's Day and the symbolic yellow rose of Texas.
Bush, an economist honored by the British Queen, and a prominent anti-extremism campaigner have all been secretly given a "terrorism" designation on a confidential database that banks use as a reference tool for blacklisting customers, a VICE News investigation can reveal.
There are three methods for SNP calling for the Illumina Infinium array: relative to the reference (also known as customer), the design (also known as Illumina) or the TOP strand (a designation based on the polymorphism itself and its flanking sequence).
The discussion has included the benefit to the team's identity of hiring a hero player; the example of Messier's inspiring character; his inexorable determination; his charisma; his outsized love of competition; and his past as the sport's greatest leader, a designation bestowed on him by sportswriters and to at least some degree apocryphal.
A highway along the route of M-137 connecting US 31 south to the state park was added to the state highway system during the first half of 1930, initially lacking a designation label on the state maps of the time.
For the eradication phase of treatment, given orally, TMP/SMX is the first-line drug, a designation based on clinical efficacy.
