delegate

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.

Noun

• enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gət, IPA^(key): /ˈdɛlɪɡət/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Verb

• enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gāt', IPA^(key): /ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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.
   • 2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi:

     Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

5. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.

• See also Thesaurus:deputy

• (computing): function pointer

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

1. (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
   • 2020, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Management: The Dance of Government and Politics:

     New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was perceived to delegate effectively. Wayne Mapp, a minister under Key observed he had 'a different style than the traditional style of New Zealand political management. He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014).

2. (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
   • 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian‎:

     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, 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.

delegate

1. feminine plural of delegato

delegate f pl

1. feminine plural of delegato

delegate f

1. plural of delegata

delegate

1. inflection of delegare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

dēlēgāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēlēgō

delegate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of delegar combined with te