delegate
IPA: dˈɛɫʌgeɪt
noun
- 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.
- A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
verb
- (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
- (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
- (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.
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Examples of "delegate" in Sentences
- Young delegates rejuvenate the party.
- She was the youngest delegate in the pageant.
- The diplomat served as a delegate in the meeting.
- The delegates unanimously approved the Declaration.
- The predicate is supplied to the operator as a delegate.
- Do the delegate actors in the network adequately represent the masses
- Someone who won one delegate is a loser.period. take care tony and lido
- Under the Delegate Selection Rules, a delegate is asked to "in good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them."
- These are what they call delegate equivalents, as opposed to the hard number of voters coming in, 9,870 for Barack Obama to 4,661.
- If we take a look at the -- what we call the delegate equivalence in Washington state on the Republican side, you can see how close it is.
- Not easy to do that because in some of the states where there are caucuses, they don't release the popular vote, they just release what they call the delegate equivalent.
- On Wednesday the Clinton camp started pushing hard on the idea that a delegate is a delegate and if they need to pack on super delegates to overwhelm Obama's edge with elected delegates then so be it.
- The Arab League plan calls on Mr. Assad to delegate his responsibilities to his vice president, so the debate in the Council swirled around whether using the word "delegate" actually represents a demand that Mr. Assad step down, according to one diplomat.
- The Arab League plan calls on Mr. Assad to delegate his responsibilities to his vice president, so the debate in the Council swirled around whether using the word "delegate" actually represents a demand that Mr. Assad step down, according to a diplomat present, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the subject.
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