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Webster 1913 Edition


Delegate

Del′e-gate

,
Noun.
[L.
delegatus
, p. p. of
delegare
to send, delegate;
de-
+
legare
to send with a commission, to depute. See
Legate
.]
1.
Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
2.
(a)
One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
(b)
One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention;
as, a
delegate
to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution
.
[U.S.]
Court of delegates
,
formerly, the great court of appeal from the archbishops’ courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such cases.
[Eng.]

Del′e-gate

,
Adj.
[L.
delegatus
, p. p.]
Sent to act for or represent another; deputed;
as, a
delegate
judge
.
Delegate power.”
Strype.

Del′e-gate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Delegated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Delegating
.]
1.
To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
2.
To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
The
delegated
administration of the law.
Locke.
Delegated
executive power.
Bancroft.
The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power,
delegated
by the people to the legislative.
J. B. Finch.

Webster 1828 Edition


Delegate

DELEGATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. To send.]
1.
To send away; appropriately, to send on an embassy; to send with power to transact business, as a representative. The President delegated three commissioners to the court of St. Cloud.
2.
To entrust; to commit; to deliver to anothers care and exercise; as, to delegate authority or power to an envoy, representative or judge.

DELEGATE

,
Noun.
1.
A person appointed and sent by another with powers to transact business as his representative; a deputy; a commissioner; a vicar. In the United States, a person elected or appointed to represent a state or a district, in the Congress, or in a Convention for forming or altering a constitution.
2.
In Great Britain, a commissioner appointed by the king, under the great seal, to hear and determine appeals from the ecclesiastical court. Hence the Court of Delegates is the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. It is used also for the court of appeals from that of the admiralty.
3.
A layman appointed to attend an ecclesiastical council.

DELEGATE

,
Adj.
Deputed; sent to act for or represent another; as a delegate judge.

Definition 2024


delegate

delegate

English

Noun

delegate (plural delegates)

  1. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
  2. a representative at a conference, etc.
  3. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
  4. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:deputy

Hypernyms

  • (computing): multicast delegate, singlecast delegate

Derived terms

  • (computing): delegate-type

Translations

Verb

delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)

  1. to authorize someone to be a delegate
  2. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
  3. (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own

Translations


Italian

Adjective

delegate

  1. feminine plural of delegato

Noun

delegate f

  1. plural of delegata

Verb

delegate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of delegare
  2. second-person plural imperative of delegare
  3. feminine plural of delegato

Latin

Verb

dēlēgāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of dēlēgō