Delegate

Quick meaning: Delegate is a noun meaning A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

Meaning

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

More Meanings

1. A representative at a conference, etc.
2. (US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
3. (computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
4. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
5. (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
6. (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
7. (computing, Internet, transitive) (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.

Example Sentences

The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.

The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.

Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was perceived to delegate effectively. Wayne Mapp, a minister under Key observed he had 'a different style than the traditional style of New Zealand political management. He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014).

Word Forms

• delegates
• delegating
• delegated

Synonyms for delegate

Depending on context, synonyms include designate, assign, depute.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include depute, assign, designate, deputy, delegation, deputize.

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