Delegate
['delɪgət] or ['dɛlɪɡət]
Definition
(noun.) a person appointed or elected to represent others.
(verb.) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).
(verb.) transfer power to someone.
Editor: Wilma--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
(n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
(n.) 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.
(a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.
(v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
(v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
Edited by Katy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Depute, commission, appoint as agent, send on an embassy.[2]. Intrust, commit.
n. Deputy, commissioner, representative.
Editor: Maureen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Appoint, depute, commission
ANT:Recall, supersede, relegate, discommission
Editor: Monica
Definition
v.t. to send as a legate or representative: to entrust or commit to.—n. one who is delegated: a deputy or representative: (U.S.) a person elected to represent a territory in congress as distinguished from the representatives of the States.—adj. delegated deputed.—ns. Delegā′tion Del′egacy a delegating: the persons delegated.
Inputed by Gavin
Unserious Contents or Definition
From Eng. dally, to loaf, and Fr. gate, spoiled. A spoiled loafer.
Editor: Rodney
Examples
- The day after his return, he was elected by the legislature of Pennsylvania a delegate to Congress. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Afterwards, they universally found it convenient to delegate it to some substitute, bailiff, or judge. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Tis this Delegate's trade for t' speak,' said Stephen, 'an' he's paid for 't, an' he knows his work. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He had neither sought nor expected the medal; and if the delegate didn't care to leave it he could take it away. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For the old Popular Assembly (in its threefold form) it would have been possible to have substituted a gathering of delegates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At Jersey City a poker game was started by one of the delegates. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Who were the Delegates? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why, you went to the Delegates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Eight delegates attended the meeting, which was held in a parlor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I don't know how it ever came about, as it is not in my line, but I seemed to be delegated to show them around. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He recognized the need of attention to natural resources, made it public, crystallized its force and delegated the technical accomplishment to Pinchot and his subordinates. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The task of teaching certain things is delegated to a special group of persons. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But consideryou need not be afraid of delegating power to _me_. Jane Austen. Emma.
Typist: Owen