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/dˈɛləgˌeɪt/ /dˈɛləgət/ Listen

Delegate

noun

A person appointed or elected to represent others.

verb

(past & past part. delegated; pres. part. delegating)

Transfer power to someone. Synonym: depute.

Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). Synonyms: assign, depute, designate.

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"Delegate" Quotes from Famous Books

... her were rather shabby ones. She had been unceremoniously dumped into his arms by a delegate from the Foundling Asylum, who had found him the most convenient receptacle nearest the door; and he had been offered the meager information that she belonged to no one, was wrong somehow, and a hospital ...

— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer

... go another day," she consented. Then, looking up at the sky, she added, "I wonder if it is going to rain. I have a Reciprocity meeting on for to-day, and I'm a delegate to some little unheard-of place. It usually does rain when one goes into ...

— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill

... among them a social worker of the latter type, who had come to make arrangements for the reception of a squad of Whitechapel boys who were under his tutelage. When I afterwards went to Cambridge I found there a delegate of some charitable board of the London Jewish community, seeking to enlist the aid of the Jewish ...

— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various

... I hope you will attend to my just claim and send a special delegate to investigate our acts and see the truth, for perhaps if a statement comes direct from me you will not ...

— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester

... become problems when transferred to the shores of the Mississippi?" To such arguments Congress could not remain wholly indifferent. The outcome was a third act (March 2, 1805) which established the usual form of territorial government, an elective legislature, a delegate in Congress, and a Governor appointed by the President. To a people who had counted on statehood these concessions were small pinchbeck. Their irritation was not allayed, and it continued to focus upon Governor Claiborne, the distrusted ...

— Jefferson and his Colleagues - A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, Volume 15 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Allen Johnson

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