All delegate synonyms
delΒ·eΒ·gate
D d verb delegate
- authorize β If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- accredit β If an educational qualification or institution is accredited, it is officially declared to be of an approved standard.
- assign β If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.
- designate β When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
- relegate β to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
- hand over β the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- pass on β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- appoint β If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
- name β a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning βgood news,β comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- license β formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- commission β If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
- nominate β to propose (someone) for appointment or election to an office.
- ordain β to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- constitute β If something constitutes a particular thing, it can be regarded as being that thing.
- cast β The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.
- charge β If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- invest β to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- choose β If you choose someone or something from several people or things that are available, you decide which person or thing you want to have.
- deputize β If you deputize for someone, you do something on their behalf, for example attend a meeting.
- mandate β a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- warrant β authorization, sanction, or justification.
- select β to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- depute β If you are deputed to do something, someone tells or allows you to do it on their behalf.
- consign β To consign something or someone to a place where they will be forgotten about, or to an unpleasant situation or place, means to put them there.
- transfer β to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- devolve β If you devolve power, authority, or responsibility to a less powerful person or group, or if it devolves upon them, it is transferred to them.
- give β to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- shunt β to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
noun delegate
- representative β a person or thing that represents another or others.
- agent β A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
- ambassador β An ambassador is an important official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country's interests there.
- deputy β A deputy is the second most important person in an organization such as a business or government department. Someone's deputy often acts on their behalf when they are not there.
- commissioner β A commissioner is an important official in a government department or other organization.
- member β a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
- minister β a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- nominee β a person nominated, as to run for elective office or fill a particular post.
- senator β a member of a senate.
- alternate β When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- appointee β An appointee is someone who has been chosen for a particular job or position of responsibility.
- consul β A consul is an official who is sent by his or her government to live in a foreign city in order to look after all the people there that belong to his or her own country.
- factor β Christmas factor.
- front β the foremost part or surface of anything.
- legate β an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
- mouthpiece β a piece placed at or forming the mouth, as of a receptacle or tube.
- plenipotentiary β a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
- proxy β the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another.
- regent β a person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
- rep β Nucleonics. a unit proposed as a supplement to roentgen for expressing dosage of ionizing radiation: subsequently abandoned.
- replacement β the act of replacing.
- spokesperson β a person who speaks for another or for a group.