delegate

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.

Pronunciation

Noun

• enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gət, IPA^(key): /ˈdɛlɪɡət/

Verb

• enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gāt', IPA^(key): /ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

Noun

delegate (plural delegates)

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

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:deputy

Hypernyms

• (computing): multicast delegate, singlecast delegate

Derived terms

• (computing): delegate-type

Translations

deputy, envoy, representative

• Arabic: موفد‏‎ m
• Armenian: պատգամավոր (hy) (patgamavor), պատվիրակ (hy) (patvirak)
• Bulgarian: делегат (bg) m (delegat), представител (bg) m (predstavitel)
• Catalan: delegat m, delegada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 代表 (zh) (dàibiǎo), 使節 (zh), 使节 (zh) (shǐjié)

• Czech: delegát m
• Dutch: afgevaardigde (nl) m, gedelegeerde m
• Finnish: edustaja (fi)
• French: délégué (fr) m, déléguée (fr) f
• German: Delegierter m, Abgeordneter (de) m, Vertreter (de) m
• Greek: απεσταλμένος m (apestalménos), απεσταλμένη f (apestalménē)

• Hebrew: בא-כוח‏‎ m (bá-kóakh), נציג‏‎ m (natzíg)
• Interlingua: delegato m, delegata f
• Japanese: 代表 (ja) (daihyō), 使節 (ja) (shisetsu), 代理人 (ja) (dairinin)
• Maori: taraketi
• Norman: d'lédgi m
• Persian: نماینده‏‎ (fa)
• Portuguese: delegado (pt) m, delegada f
• Russian: делега́т (ru) m (delegát), делега́тка (ru) f (delegátka), представи́тель (ru) m (predstavítelʹ), представи́тельница (ru) f (predstavítelʹnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-ionaid m, riochdaire m
• Spanish: delegado (es) m, delegada (es) f
• Swedish: delegat (sv) c
• Turkish: delege (tr)

Verb

delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)

1. to authorize someone to be a delegate
2. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
3. (computing, Internet) (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

Translations

to commit a task to someone

• Arabic: فوض‏‎
• Armenian: պատվիրակել (patvirakel), լիազորել (hy) (liazorel)
• Bulgarian: делегирам (bg) (delegiram), упълномощавам (bg) (upǎlnomoštavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 委託 (zh) (wěituō), 委托 (zh) (wěituō)

• Czech: delegovat (cs)
• Estonian: delegeerima

• French: déléguer (fr)
• Italian: delegare (it)
• Norman: d'lédgi
• Norwegian: delegere
• Persian: سپردن‏‎ (fa), تفویض کردن‏‎
• Russian: поруча́ть (ru) impf (poručátʹ), поручи́ть (ru) pf (poručítʹ), уполномо́чивать (ru) impf (upolnomóčivatʹ), уполномо́чить (ru) pf (upolnomóčitʹ), делеги́ровать (ru) impf, pf (delegírovatʹ)
• Spanish: diputar (es)

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Italian

Adjective

delegate

1. feminine plural of delegato

Noun

delegate f

1. plural of delegata

Verb

delegate

1. second-person plural present indicative of delegare
2. second-person plural imperative of delegare
3. feminine plural of delegato

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Latin

Verb

dēlēgāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of dēlēgō