noun. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or agent.

noun. A representative to a conference or convention.

noun. A member of a House of Delegates, the lower house of the Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia legislature.

noun. An elected or appointed representative of a US territory in the House of Representatives who is entitled to speak but not vote.

transitive verb. To authorize and send (another person) as one's representative.

transitive verb. To commit or entrust to another.

Deputed; commissioned or sent to act for or represent another.

noun. A person appointed and sent by another or by others, with power to transact business as his or their representative; a deputy; a commissioner; an attorney.

noun. Specifically In the United States: A person elected or appointed to represent a Territory in Congress, as distinguished from the representatives of States.

noun. A person sent with representative powers to a convention, conference, or other assembly for nomination of officers, or for drafting or altering a constitution, or for the transaction of the business of the organization which such persons collectively represent.

noun. In Great Britain: A commissioner formerly appointed by the crown, under the great seal, to hear and determine appeals from the ecclesiastical courts.

noun. One of a committee chosen by the house of convocation in the University of Oxford, with power to act.

noun. A layman appointed to attend an ecclesiastical council.

noun. The lower house of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church (in full, House of Clerical and Lay Delegates).

To depute; appropriately, to send with power to transact business as a representative: as. he was delegated to the convention.

To intrust; commit; deliver to another's care and management: as, to delegate authority or power to a representative.

adjective. Sent to act for or represent another; deputed.

noun. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

noun. undefined

noun. One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

noun. One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention.

noun. 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.

transitive verb. To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

transitive verb. To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

noun. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy

noun. a representative at a conference, etc.

noun. an appointed representative in some legislative bodies

noun. a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer

verb. to authorize someone to be a delegate

verb. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate

verb. (Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours

verb. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

verb. transfer power to someone

noun. a person appointed or elected to represent others

"On Wednesday the Clinton camp started pushing hard on the idea that a delegate is a delegate and if they need to pack on super delegates to overwhelm Obama's edge with elected delegates then so be it."

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