The word "dedicating" is correct and usable in written English
It means to give something (time, energy, etc.) to something else in a dedicated manner. Example sentence: He is dedicated to his job, often dedicating long hours to ensure work is done correctly.
She declares she will henceforth be dedicating all her energy to fighting for the legalisation of marijuana in Alaska.
"My passion to learn about the brain is what got me into Oxford and it's what I am dedicating my life to.
"My greatest regret is not dedicating the book to you," Saint-Exupéry wrote after completing his fable while in American exile, during a reconciliation with his estranged wife.
And this year it is dedicating a festival to three historic spans over the Firth of Forth: one old, one new and a third that is well into middle-age.
I'm pretty confident that Maureen Adams, handed an MBE this year for dedicating her career to helping those affected by HIV/Aids, has had more of a positive net impact on society than, say, Centrica chairman Roger Carr, who was knighted last year after prices were raised by 7% just as winter approached.
Claudia Evers, the emergency Ebola coordinator in Guinea for Médecins Sans Frontières, told Reuters that the aid group had made a mistake by focusing on the need for more treatment beds early in the epidemic instead of dedicating greater resources to raising awareness of the disease.
The Sacramento crew ran through numbers from their 2012 album Koi No Yokan and finished up with the still-ferocious 7 Words – but not before dedicating a stirring performance of Change (In the House of Flies) to their late bassist Chi Cheng, who passed away in April.
Take Primal Scream and their unedifying habit at the start of this century of dedicating songs to the Serbian warlord Arkan, who carried out unimaginable crimes of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war.
It culminated in the Economist dedicating a notorious cover in 2000 to what it described as "the hopeless continent", claiming that across Africa "floods, famine… government-sponsored thuggery, and poverty and pestilence continue unabated".
Formerly of Mumbai's legendary Taj Hotel, which he left two years ago to start his own bar, he also runs Bombay Foodies, dedicating to "helping the people of this incredible city know what to eat and where to eat it".
For four weeks we'll be dedicating much of our site's online discussions to this debate.
