delegate

Pluraldelegates

Formsdelegates, delegating, delegated

1. 1
   nouncountable

   Someone chosen to speak or act for other people.

   Like sending a friend to a meeting to speak for you when you can't go yourself.

   The club picked her as their delegate to the city meeting.

   Each delegate carried the wishes of the people who sent them.

   Similarrepresentative, deputy, envoy, proxy, agent

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A person sent to speak for a group at a big meeting.

   Like one person from your team going to a big meeting to speak for everyone.

   Every delegate received a badge at the conference entrance.

   She was a delegate at the science conference last spring.

   Similarrepresentative, envoy

3. 3
   verbtransitive

   To give one of your jobs or duties to another person to do.

   Like handing part of your chores to a brother or sister so the work gets done faster.

   A good manager will delegate small jobs to the team.

   She decided to delegate the paperwork to her assistant.

   Similarassign, entrust, hand, pass, devolve

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4. 4
   verbintransitive

   To give your tasks and duties to other people instead of doing them all yourself.

   Like a captain who lets teammates take on jobs instead of doing everything alone.

   A busy boss must learn to delegate.

   If you delegate well, your team grows stronger.

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5. 5
   nounUScountable

   A person chosen to represent an area in certain US lawmaking groups.

   Like a class representative, but for a part of the state in its government.

   Her uncle served as a delegate in the state legislature.

   Voters elected a new delegate to represent the district.

   Similarrepresentative, legislator, lawmaker

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   A lawmaker who can join debates but cannot cast votes.

   Like a guest at a meeting who can talk and give advice but cannot raise a hand to vote.

   The delegate spoke in the debate but could not vote on the law.

   As a delegate, she joined the discussions without voting rights.

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7. 7
   nouncountable

   In computer programming, a value that holds a link to a function so it can be called later.

   Like saving a friend's phone number so you can call them later instead of looking it up each time.

   The programmer used a delegate to call the method when the button was clicked.

   A delegate lets you pass a function around like any other value.

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8. 8
   verbtransitive

   In computer networks, to hand control of part of a web address to someone else.

   Like giving a neighbor the keys to one room so they can arrange it however they like.

   The company chose to delegate the subdomain to its hosting provider.

   You can delegate a section of your domain to another server.

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