delegate

plural delegates

1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. A representative at a conference, etc.
3. USAn appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
4. computingA type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.

   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.

   2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi

5. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.

   The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.

present singular third person delegates · participle present delegating · participle past delegated · past delegated

1. intransitiveTo commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.

   delegate to someone

   1 more example

   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).

   2020, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Management: The Dance of Government and Politics

2. transitiveTo commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.

   The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.

   2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: turn over

3. transitiveTo appoint (someone) as one's representative.
4. Internettransitivecomputing(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.

1. not comparableobsoleteparticiplepastdelegated
2. adjectivenot comparableobsoleteActing as a delegate, delegated; of, pertaining to a delegate

1. A locality in the Snowy Monaro council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.