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Subdelegate

Sub-del′e-gate

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Noun.
A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.

Sub-del′e-gate

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Verb.
T.
To appoint to act as subdelegate, or as a subordinate; to depete.

Definition 2024


subdelegate

subdelegate

English

Verb

subdelegate (third-person singular simple present subdelegates, present participle subdelegating, simple past and past participle subdelegated)

  1. (transitive) To delegate (a task already delegated to oneself) to somebody else.
    • 1942, The American Ecclesiastical Review: Volume 107
      To subdelegate a determinate priest to assist at a specified marriage of those subjects of the Military Vicar who have been placed under your personal charge, excluding entirely, however, the power of again subdelegating.
  2. (transitive) To appoint as a subdelegate or subordinate.

Noun

subdelegate (plural subdelegates)

  1. A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.

Italian

Verb

subdelegate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of subdelegare
  2. second-person plural imperative of subdelegare
  3. feminine plural of subdelegato