name as

name (one) as

1. To choose, select, or appoint one to some role or position. The board of directors named Steve Bobs as the new CEO of the company. My lawyers advised me to name my son as the executor of my estate.
2. To assign one a particular descriptor or characterization. The village elders named the man as a traitor, banishing him to the wastelands forever. The new video debunks the entrepreneur's claims, naming her as a complete fraud.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

name someone as something

to select someone as something. The mayor named Karen as corporate council. The president named himself as chairman of the new committee.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • name (one) as
  • be put out to grass
  • a/the fish rots from the head down
  • a/the fish stinks from the head down
  • be in the right spot at the right time
  • start out at (something or some place)
  • start out at an amount of money
  • cook the books
  • cue
  • (right) on cue
References in periodicals archive
"I thought it would be a miracle if anyone in the journal's editorial department would pronounce the name as we would in English," he says.
A Fly Called Iyaiyai
If, by chance, your business has the same name as another company or you have the same name as a famous person, you have a better chance of proving you didn't register the domain name in bad faith (or basically to hold it for ransom), explains Schmid.
What's in a name?
Naming is not simply a creative exercise, it's rather a highly strategic undertaking to drive the corporate name as a weapon in the marketplace.
Naming for global power
The adjustment is a mechanism to account for the decrease in relative value of the original transferred trade name as the trade name in the foreign jurisdiction gains value through local marketing efforts.
Trade name licensing in foreign markets
So the answer to the question we posed at the start of this article -- "What's in a name?" -- is everything, and just as much care has to be given to creating the name as making the product or service itself.
What's in a name?