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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English delegat , from Old French delegat , from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus , the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō ( “ to send, assign, delegate ” ) , see -ate ( noun-forming suffix ) . See also legate .
Pronunciation
Noun
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 .
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 .
A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.
Synonyms
Translations
deputy, envoy, representative
Albanian: përfaqsues (sq) m , delegat (sq) , delegate (sq) f
Arabic: مُوفَد m ( mūfad ) , وَكِيل (ar) m ( wakīl )
Armenian: պատգամավոր (hy) ( patgamavor ) , պատվիրակ (hy) ( patvirak )
Azerbaijani: nümayəndə (az)
Bashkir: вәкил ( vəkil )
Belarusian: дэлега́т m ( deljehát ) , дэлега́тка f ( deljehátka ) , прадстаўні́к m ( pradstaŭník ) , прадстаўні́ца f ( pradstaŭníca )
Bengali: প্রতিনিধি (bn) ( protinidhi )
Bulgarian: делега́т (bg) m ( delegát ) , делега́тка f ( delegátka ) , представи́тел (bg) m ( predstavítel ) , представи́телка f ( predstavítelka )
Burmese: ကိုယ်စားလှယ် (my) ( kuiyca:hlai )
Catalan: delegat (ca) m , delegada (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 代表 (zh) ( dàibiǎo ) , 使節 / 使节 (zh) ( shǐjié )
Czech: delegát (cs) m , delegátka f
Danish: delegeret c , repræsentant c , befuldmægtiget c
Dutch: afgevaardigde (nl) m , gedelegeerde (nl) m
Estonian: delegaat , esindaja (et)
Finnish: edustaja (fi)
French: délégué (fr) m , déléguée (fr) f
Georgian: დელეგატი ( delegaṭi )
German: Delegierter (de) m , Delegierte (de) f , Abgeordneter (de) m , Abgeordnete (de) f , Vertreter (de) m , Vertreterin (de) f
Greek: απεσταλμένος (el) m ( apestalménos ) , απεσταλμένη (el) f ( apestalméni )
Hebrew: בא־כוח m ( bá-kóakh ) , נָצִיג (he) m ( natsíg )
Hindi: प्रतिनिधि (hi) m ( pratinidhi ) , डेलीगेट m ( ḍelīgeṭ ) , नुमाइंदा (hi) m ( numāindā )
Hungarian: küldött (hu) , delegátus (hu)
Icelandic: fulltrúi m
Indonesian: wakil (id)
Interlingua: delegato m , delegata f
Italian: delegato (it) m , delegata (it) f
Japanese: 代表 (ja) ( だいひょう, daihyō ) , 使節 (ja) ( しせつ, shisetsu ) , 代理人 (ja) ( だいりにん, dairinin )
Kazakh: делегат ( delegat ) , өкіл ( ökıl )
Khmer: បេសកជន ( peesaʼkaʼcŭən ) , ប្រតិភូ (km) ( prɑtephuu )
Korean: 대표(代表) (ko) ( daepyo ) , 사절(使節) (ko) ( sajeol ) , 대리인(代理人) (ko) ( daeriin ) , 대리자(代理者) (ko) ( daerija )
Kyrgyz: делегат ( delegat )
Lao: ຜູ້ແທນ ( phū thǣn ) , ຜູ້ຕາງຫນ້າ ( phū tāng nā )
Latvian: delegāts m , delegāte f , pārstāvis m , pārstāve f
Lithuanian: delegatas m , delegatė f , atstovas m , atstovė f
Macedonian: делега́т m ( delegát ) , делега́тка f ( delegátka ) , претставник m ( pretstavnik ) , претставничка f ( pretstavnička )
Malay: wakil (ms)
Maori: taraketi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: төлөөлөгч (mn) ( tölöölögč )
Norman: d'lédgi m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: delegat m
Nynorsk: delegat m
Ottoman Turkish: ایلچی ( elçi ) , سفیر ( sefir )
Pashto: نماينده (ps) m ( namāyənda )
Persian: نماینده (fa) ( namâyande ) , وکیل (fa) ( vakil )
Polish: delegat (pl) m , delegatka (pl) f
Portuguese: delegado (pt) m , delegada f
Romanian: delegat (ro) m , delegată (ro) f
Russian: делега́т (ru) m ( delegát ) , делега́тка (ru) f ( delegátka ) , представи́тель (ru) m ( predstavítelʹ ) , представи́тельница (ru) f ( predstavítelʹnica )
Scottish Gaelic: neach-ionaid m , riochdaire m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: делѐга̄т m
Roman: delègāt (sh) m
Slovak: delegát m , delegátka f
Slovene: delegat m , delegatka f
Spanish: delegado (es) m , delegada (es) f
Swedish: delegat (sv) c
Tajik: намоянда ( namoyanda ) , вакил ( vakil )
Tatar: вәкил (tt) ( wäkil ) , делегат ( delegat )
Thai: ตัวแทน (th) ( dtuua-tɛɛn ) , ผู้แทน (th) ( pûu-tɛɛn )
Turkish: delege (tr)
Turkmen: delegat
Ukrainian: делега́т (uk) m ( delehát ) , делега́тка f ( delehátka ) , представни́к (uk) m ( predstavnýk ) , представни́ця (uk) f ( predstavnýcja )
Urdu: نُمائِندَہ m ( numā'inda ) , مَنْدُوب (ur) m ( mandūb )
Uyghur: ۋەكىل ( wekil )
Uzbek: vakil (uz) , delegat (uz) , namoyanda (uz)
Vietnamese: đại biểu (vi)
Etymology 2
From the above noun by metanalysis or directly borrowed from Latin dēlēgātus , see -ate ( verb-forming suffix ) and Etymology 1 for more.
Pronunciation
Verb
delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates , present participle delegating , simple past and past participle delegated )
( 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).
( 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.
( 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.
Derived terms
Translations
to commit a task to someone
Arabic: فوض
Armenian: պատվիրակել (hy) ( patvirakel ) , լիազորել (hy) ( liazorel )
Asturian: delegar
Belarusian: дэлегава́ць impf or pf ( deljehavácʹ )
Bulgarian: делегирам (bg) ( delegiram ) , упълномощавам (bg) ( upǎlnomoštavam )
Catalan: delegar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 委託 / 委托 (zh) ( wěituō )
Czech: delegovat (cs)
Danish: overdrage (da) , delegere (da) , uddelegere , betro
Dutch: delegeren (nl)
Estonian: delegeerima
Finnish: delegoida (fi) , antaa tehtäväksi , valtuuttaa (fi)
French: déléguer (fr)
German: delegieren (de)
Greek:
Ancient Greek: διατάσσω ( diatássō )
Hungarian: delegál (hu)
Italian: delegare (it)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: deleģēt
Maori: tuku mana
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: d'lédgi
Norwegian: delegere
Persian: سپردن (fa) , تفویض کردن
Polish: oddelegować
Portuguese: delegar (pt)
Romanian: delega (ro)
Russian: поруча́ть (ru) impf ( poručátʹ ) , поручи́ть (ru) pf ( poručítʹ ) , уполномо́чивать (ru) impf ( upolnomóčivatʹ ) , уполномо́чить (ru) pf ( upolnomóčitʹ ) , делеги́ровать (ru) impf or pf ( delegírovatʹ )
Spanish: diputar (es) , delegar (es)
Swedish: delegera (sv)
Thai: มอบหมาย (th) ( mɔ̂ɔp-mǎai )
Ukrainian: делегува́ти impf or pf ( delehuváty )
Vietnamese: uỷ thác (vi) , giao phó (vi)
Welsh: dirprwyo (cy)
Etymology 3
From Middle English delegat(e) ( “ delegated ” , used as a past participle and adjective ) , used as the past participle of delegate up until Early Modern English , see -ate ( adjective-forming suffix ) and Etymology 1 for more.
Adjective
delegate (not comparable )
( obsolete , past participle) delegated
( obsolete , adjective) Acting as a delegate , delegated ; of, pertaining to a delegate
Italian
Etymology 1
Adjective
delegate
feminine plural of delegato
Participle
delegate f pl
feminine plural of delegato
Etymology 2
Noun
delegate f
plural of delegata
Etymology 3
Verb
delegate
inflection of delegare :
second-person plural present indicative
second-person plural imperative
Latin
Verb
dēlēgāte
second-person plural present active imperative of dēlēgō
Spanish
Verb
delegate
second-person singular voseo imperative of delegar combined with te