delegate
A person authorized to act as representative for anotherA person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
» I have no problem delegating authority.
Meaning
5 sensesA person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
Delegierter, Delegierte, Abgeordneter
делега́тdelegát, делега́ткаdelegátka, представи́тельpredstavítelʹ
делега́тdelehát, делега́ткаdelehátka, представни́кpredstavnýk
A representative at a conference, etc.
(US)An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.
- a person appointed or elected to represent others
Examples
43 sentencesI have no problem delegating authority.
Are you good at delegating tasks?
Tom isn't a very good boss because he has trouble delegating tasks to others.
Sixty delegates were elected.
ruОтобрали шестьдесят делегатов.
deSechzig Delegierte wurden gewählt.
The delegates voted on the issue.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivizedFrom Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.
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