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Definition of Delegate

1. Noun. A person appointed or elected to represent others.

2. Verb. Transfer power to someone.

3. Verb. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). "They delegate him to write the letter"

Definition of Delegate

1. n. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

2. a. Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.

3. v. t. To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

Definition of Delegate

1. Noun. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy ¹

2. Noun. a representative at a conference, etc. ¹

3. Noun. (American English) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies ¹

4. Noun. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer ¹

5. Verb. to authorize someone to be a delegate ¹

6. Verb. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate ¹

7. Verb. (computing) (Internet) (qualifier of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Delegate

1. to appoint as one's representative [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delegate

delectate delectated delectates delectating delectation delectations deled delegable delegacies delegacy

delegalize delegalized delegalizes delegalizing delegatable delegate (current term) delegated delegatee delegatees delegates

delegating delegation delegations delegator delegators delegatory delegee delegees delegitimate delegitimated

Literary usage of Delegate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1900)
"delegate for Kankakee county 38 Barringer. Geo., Jonesboro. ... 10th District 48 •Curtis, GW, Stockton, III., delegate for JoDaviess county 37 Copeland. ..."

2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1883)
"Dr. CN Hewitt, Red Wing; state delegate, Secretary State Board of Health. ... JL Noyes, Faribault, state delegate; Superintendent Institution for the Deaf ..."

3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1903)
"T. Maxer, delegate to 23d district conference Peter Beever, delegate to 23d district conference JU Beckemeyer. delegate to 23d district conference JJ Ewald, ..."

4. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Original by James Brown Scott (1921)
"Garcia Rosado, Lieutenant Colonel Tomaz Antonio, delegate of Portugal, ... Gross von Schwarzhoff, Colonel, delegate to the conference of 1899, 111:742. ..."

5. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1900)
"Hatfield, SJ, Member State Board of Pardons, Sidney, Official delegate. ... Boies, HM, Member Board of Public Charities, Scranton, Official delegate. ..."

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