Delegate(a.) Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.
Delegate(n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
Delegate(n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
Delegate(n.) 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.
Delegate(v. t.) To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
Delegate(v. t.) To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
Delegated(imp. & p. p.) of Delegate
Delegating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Delegate
Delegation(n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
Delegation(n.) One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
Delegation(n.) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
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