ALL meanings of delegate
del·e·gate
D d - countable noun delegate A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting. 3
- verb delegate If you delegate duties, responsibilities, or power to someone, you give them those duties, those responsibilities, or that power so that they can act on your behalf. 3
- verb delegate If you are delegated to do something, you are given the duty of acting on someone else's behalf by making decisions, voting, or doing some particular work. 3
- noun delegate a person chosen or elected to act for or represent another or others, esp at a conference or meeting 3
- noun delegate a representative of a territory in the US House of Representatives 3
- verb delegate to give or commit (duties, powers, etc) to another as agent or representative; depute 3
- verb delegate to send, authorize, or elect (a person) as agent or representative 3
- verb delegate to assign (a person owing a debt to oneself) to one's creditor in substitution for oneself 3
- noun delegate a person authorized or sent to speak and act for others; representative, as at a convention 3
- noun delegate a representative of a U.S. Territory in the House of Representatives, with the right to speak but not to vote 3
- noun delegate a member of a House of Delegates 3
- verb transitive delegate to send or appoint as a representative or deputy 3
- verb transitive delegate to entrust (authority, power, etc.) to a person acting as one's agent or representative 3
- noun delegate A person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference. 1
- transitive verb delegate task: entrust 1
- transitive verb delegate task: entrust to sb 1
- transitive verb delegate person: appoint 1
- noun delegate political representative 1
- noun delegate a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a political convention. 1
- noun delegate (formerly) the representative of a Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1
- noun delegate a member of the lower house of the state legislature of Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia. 1
- verb with object delegate to send or appoint (a person) as deputy or representative. 1
- verb with object delegate to commit (powers, functions, etc.) to another as agent or deputy. 1
- noun delegate a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy. 0
- noun delegate a representative at a conference, etc. 0
- noun delegate (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies. 0
- noun delegate (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer. 0
- verb delegate to authorize someone to be a delegate. 0
- verb delegate to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate. 0
- verb delegate (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours. 0