delegate

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun
  • enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gət, IPA(key): /ˈdɛlɪɡət/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
Verb
  • enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gāt', IPA(key): /ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

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.

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Verb

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.

Translations

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

delegate

  1. feminine plural of delegato

Participle

delegate f pl

  1. feminine plural of delegato

Etymology 2

Noun

delegate f

  1. plural of delegata

Etymology 3

Verb

delegate

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

Latin

Verb

dēlēgāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēlēgō

Spanish

Verb

delegate

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