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Meaning delegate meaning

What does delegate mean?
Definitions in simple English

delegate Noun

— A delegate is a person authorized to act as representative for one or more other people, especially at a conference or in government. He's attending the Democratic Convention as a delegate from the great state of Ohio. A majority of the delegates voted against joining with that group.

delegate Verb

— If you delegate a job or the power to do that job, it is yours, but you give it to someone in a lower position. As more decisions on more complicated matters have to be made, more power has to be delegated to lower-ranking personnel.

delegate

— verb transfer power to someone — verb (= assign) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) — noun a person appointed or elected to represent others

Synonyms delegate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as delegate?

delegate English » English

representative deputy depute agent envoy entrust proxy designate assign appoint spokesman surrogate send mouthpiece broker authorize upholder substitute stand for spokeswoman represent relegate proponent participant parliamentary name messenger member exponent empower emissary devolve believer authorise advocate warrant voice vice gerent spokesperson send as a delegate sanction representation recommend r procurator organization mouth missive mission member of parliament

Topics delegate topics

What do people use delegate to talk about?
Social behavior Authority Exercise authority

Appoint, delegate
Social behavior Government Government functions

Represent

Conjugation delegate conjugation

How do you conjugate delegate?

delegate · verb

Examples delegate examples

How do I use delegate in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

The folowwing day, a delegate from the Austrian Prison Administration accompanies the Safety Commission in their monthly inspection.
A delegate from shore.
Mr. Mladen Sokolivitch, Delegate.
Mr. Tillio A. Rodelli, Delegate.
The government labor delegate is coming today.
The government delegate.
Will you do me a favor? Tell the men that the delegate is coming at 5 o'clock.
Delegate from Chicago.
Defendant Gaspare Pisciotta was questioned in palermo by the delegate at the inquiry before the court of appeals.
The delegate from Phocis asks the vital question.
I've been sent here as a delegate of the bureau to make you an offer.
And they call upon you, in this article, they call upon you to unite behind a real strong delegate and carry this fight to Washington if necessary.
I'd like to nominate the chairman, Mr Ransom Stoddard, as delegate to the territorial convention.
I aim to be the delegate.
The International Goodwill Society hereby appoints you its special delegate.
Apparently, in creative areas, it was difficult for Whale to delegate.
You realise the French delegate hasn't even a manservant?
I'm going to delegate the most dependable man I know to guard the Star of Deli in my place while I keep an eye on Miss Brandon.
Now I've given you the wonderful news our delegate comrade will speak.
We want to appoint a new delegate to succeed Chambris.
Of course! Please, Madame, the delegate from the Chancellor.
Soon, news of the absent delegate reached the French Press Agency in New York's Rockefeller Plaza.
The absence of the French delegate has been widely noted.
Was there a reason for the delegate's absence?
I know it's quitting time but our UN delegate has disappeared.
Our delegate has disappeared.
Mr. Frank Davis, official delegate, was our unofficial representative.
Why wait for delegate Esteban?
Mladen Sekolivitch, delegate.
Tillio A. Rodelli, delegate.
And to delegate it with carrying on struggle with Kaledin and organizing.
Where have you been? Will you do me a favor? Tell the men that the delegate is coming at 5 o'clock.
Spats Colombo. Delegate from Chicago. South Side Chapter.
Dunya, a delegate is here.
A delegate from the women's section, making a list of the illiterate.
This is Comrade Yelkin, our local delegate.
We agreed to send a delegate.
You appear so keen to be a model delegate one might think you are afraid of the Daleks.

News and current affairs

This comes as little surprise, as America's Constitution and political system delegate most of the initiative on foreign policy and defense to the president.
But it seems unconscionable that the ECB would delegate to a secret committee of self-interested market participants the right to determine what is an acceptable debt restructuring.
Citizens delegate decisions to representatives (governments, legislators).
One is that despite occasional shows of unity, European countries retain very different views on foreign policy and do not want to delegate this prerogative.
Perhaps the heads of states of the four European countries would lose a major photo opportunity and have no inclination to delegate it to a representative of the EU.
But it underscores that decisions about what to delegate to the EU are often the result of short-sighted conflicts between national and European bureaucracies rather than the product of a carefully thought-out institutional design.
Everywhere the recipe is roughly the same: delegate policy to a group of competent people - the central bank - by making them formally independent from political pressure and providing them with a clear, explicit mandate.
Conspicuously, the recently elected PLO Executive Committee - which in the past consisted exclusively of representatives of the Palestinian Diaspora - now has only one member from the diaspora, a delegate from Lebanon.
In Europe, either the EU must become more democratic, which will take a long time, or national governments must delegate less to the bureaucrats in Brussels.

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