delegate

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.

PronunciationEdit

Noun
  • enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gət, IPA(key): /ˈdɛlɪɡət/
  • Audio (UK)
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Verb

NounEdit

delegate (plural delegates)

  1. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
  2. a representative at a conference, etc.
  3. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
  4. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer

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(computing) Hyponyms of delegate

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VerbEdit

delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)

  1. to authorize someone to be a delegate
  2. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
    • 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.
  3. (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

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

delegate

  1. feminine plural of delegato

NounEdit

delegate f

  1. plural of delegata

VerbEdit

delegate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of delegare
  2. second-person plural imperative of delegare
  3. feminine plural of delegato

LatinEdit

VerbEdit

dēlēgāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēlēgō
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