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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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... 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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