The phrase "designated seat" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a particular seat that has been assigned or chosen for someone to use. Example: "Please take your designated seat in the front row for the presentation."
You have a ticket with a designated seat and aeroplanes are uncomfortable.
At the conference table, Nungesser took a chair next to Obama's designated seat, and Jindal sat next to him.
At one point when she was assigned to do a supervisor shift, a male colleague sat in the designated seat to block her from doing the job.
This led to much grumbling among our parents, who couldn't understand what was wrong with a good old-fashioned designated seat.
Besides refunding money for late flights, the Biztravel.com guarantee covers seat assignments ($25 for domestic and $50 for international passengers who arrive on time and don't get their designated seat assignment) and meal service in first and business classes ($25 if you don't get your choice of the available entrees).
This season, I spent most nights in right field in my designated seat.
"At every commercial, people would get out their cell phones and leave, and there were these designated seat-fillers, dressed in faux evening clothes, who would come down and occupy your seats.
"Twenty minutes out on the lawn does not suffice, with a designated seating for traveling journalists".
They manoeuvre themselves to their designated seats in a unified fashion characterised by robotic precision, gentlemanly poise and a regimented order typical of their brand.
Stumble upon the gleaming stand (there is no designated seating) in a nook of Chelsea Market and you'll pick up quick signals that the three gentlemen behind it (two from California and one from Tijuana) know what they're doing.
The law at the time designated seats for black passengers at the back and for whites at the front, but left the middle as a murky no man's land.
