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/dˈɛləgˌeɪt/ /dˈɛləgət/ Listen

noun

Delegate n.

1.

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

2.

(a)

One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

(b)

One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution. (U.S.)

Court of delegates, formerly, the great court of appeal from the archbishops' courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such cases. (Eng.)

verb

Delegate v. t. (past & past part. delegated; pres. part. delegating)

1.

To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

2.

To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit. "The delegated administration of the law." "Delegated executive power." "The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative."

adjective

Delegate adj. Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge. "Delegate power."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Delegate" Quotes from Famous Books

... a particular fact can be said to be a delegate for, the more a particular fact can be said to represent other facts, the more of the floor it should have. The power of reading for facts depends upon a man's power to recognise symbolic or sum-total or senatorial facts ...

— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee

... but two recent works of much value on emancipation in Jamaica—Underhill's and Sewell's. The work of Mr. Underhill, although, as a delegate of a missionary society which had much to do in bringing about emancipation, he might be supposed to have a strong party interest, is marked by an impartial caution which entitles it to great ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... on the eve of the secession of his State from the Union. He was a leading Secessionist and was elected a member of the Secession Convention. That body after passing the Ordinance of Secession elected him a delegate to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, which met at Montgomery, Ala. He was a very active member. On the adjournment of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States he returned to South Carolina and raised the Twentieth Regiment ...

— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert

... she had an object in life to accomplish, one that was wider than personal benefit. She occupied the chair as President of the Church Aid. For five years she had been the delegate to the County Temperance Convention. She was also a regular contributor to the religious columns of a city newspaper, and she held many other responsible duties within her keeping. Then, her cousin, James Piper, had three children to bring up properly, ...

— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer

... he resided in the city, holding it with the grasp of an absolute ruler. Yet he felt his position insecure. The republic had no longer any forms of self-government; nor was there a magistracy to whom the despot could delegate his power in his absence. Giulio's ambition was fixed upon the Papal crown. The bastards he was rearing were but children. Florence had therefore to be furnished with some political machinery that should ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

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