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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;
“Delegate power.” as, a
. delegate
judgeStrype.
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.
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.
Definition 2024
delegate
delegate
English
Noun
delegate (plural delegates)
- a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
- a representative at a conference, etc.
- (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
- (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
deputy, envoy, representative
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Verb
delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)
- to authorize someone to be a delegate
- to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
- (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
to commit a task to someone