delegate
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.
PronunciationEdit
- Noun
- Verb
NounEdit
delegate (plural delegates)
- a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
- a representative at a conference, etc.
- (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
- (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:deputy
HypernymsEdit
(computing) Hyponyms of delegate
Derived termsEdit
- (computing): delegate-type
Related termsEdit
- (computing): function pointer
TranslationsEdit
deputy, envoy, representative
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VerbEdit
delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)
- to authorize someone to be a delegate
- 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.
- (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
TranslationsEdit
to commit a task to someone
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ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
delegate
NounEdit
delegate f
VerbEdit
delegate
- second-person plural present indicative of delegare
- second-person plural imperative of delegare
- feminine plural of delegato
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
dēlēgāte