Delegate

Definitions: Delegate

Delegate

Noun

1. A person appointed or elected to represent others.

Verb

1. Transfer power to someone.

2. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "delegate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

19th Century Satire

Economics

General

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Synonyms: Delegate

Commission

Verb: commission, delegate, depute; consign, assign; charge; intrust, entrust; commit, commit to the hands of; authorize; (permit).

Agent, delegate, consignee.

Consignee

Agent, delegate; commissary, commissioner; emissary, envoy, commissionaire; messenger.

Deputy

Noun: deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, badli, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary.

Transference

Send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post.

Crosswords: Delegate

The new delegate from Georgia! (1776; writing credit: Sherman Edwards; Peter Stone)

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Books

• A Guide to Delegate Preparation, 1994-1995 (reference)

• Delegate Multiply Your Impact (reference)

• Essential Managers: How To Delegate (reference)

• Guide to Delegate Preparation (reference)

• How to Delegate Work and Ensure It's Done Right (reference)

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Paul A. Smith United States delegate to International Civil Aviation Organization Headed aeronautical charting during WWII.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figure 34. Gilson messenger, devised by Professor Gustave Gilson of the University of Louvain and delegate from Belgium at the Permanent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea , to intiate the operation of his plankton meter.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

United Nations' delegates stand by a U.S. Air Force H-5 helicopter with General Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. Army, Commander in Chief United Nations Command, prior to take off for the initial Armistice talks meeting, 10 July 1951. They are (from left to right): Rear Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, Major General Laurence C. Cragie, U.S. Air Force, Major General Paik Sun Yup, Republic of Korea Army, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Chief Delegate, General Ridgway, and Major Henry I. Hodes, U.S. Army.Credit: NAVY.

U.N. Command Delegates Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN (left), and Major General William K. Harrison, U.S. Army, walk to their helicopter after a conference session at Panmunjom, 7 May 1952. This was the date that Communist prisoners of war at Koje-do captured Brigadier General Francis Dodd, the POW camp commandant. MGen. Harrison relieved VAdm. Joy as Senior Delegate on 22 May 1952.Credit: NAVY.

Jackson delegate ticket. No "favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride us legitimately by the grace of God".Credit: Library of Congress.

One delegate who should not be seated.Credit: Library of Congress.

Delegate dogging! / Packer.Credit: Library of Congress.

Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser shaking hands with Japanese chief delegate Tatsunosuke Takasaki at the Afro-Asian Conference--Chinese premier Chou En- lai is in center.Credit: Library of Congress.

Delegate Assembly for Civil Rights, left to right, Roy Reuther of United Automobile Workers, AFL-CIO; Clarence Mitchell, director of NAACP Washington bureau; and Charles Zimmerman of Jewish Labor Committee] / Sorrell, Washington, D.C.Credit: Library of Congress.

Delegate Wickersham.Credit: Library of Congress.

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The Delegate of Belgium shall have this right on all occasions other than those referred to below. (reference)

I propose that each of the Powers and States should be invited to delegate a certain number of air squadrons to the service of the world organization. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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The best men are often compelled to delegate their authority.

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Business

In other cases, they may delegate this power to the hospitals. (references)

Children

Tunisia

There is a Ministry for Children and Youth and a Presidential Delegate to Safeguard the Rights and Welfare of Children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Equatorial Guinea

The DAR refused to hold meetings with the delegate present, and consequently it did not meet during the year. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

The DAR complied with the requirement and received permission to meet, but the local delegate insisted on being present during the meetings. (references)

Economic History

Andorra

They are represented in Andorra by a delegate. (references)

New Zealand

The territorial authorities may delegate powers to local community boards. (references)

Guatemala

Firms should never delegate to a local agent, distributor or business partner the job of registering intellectual property. (references)

Human Rights

Philippines

Jail administrators reportedly delegate authority to maintain order to senior inmates. (references)

Nigeria

The ICRC is active, with offices in Abuja and Lagos under the direction of a regional delegate. (references)

China

Another delegate complained that lack of respect for human rights in the legal system was a growing problem. (references)

Political Economy

Andorra

Two Princes with joint authority, representing secular and religious authorities, have headed the Principality since 1278. Under the 1993 Constitution, the two Princes--the President of France and the Catholic Bishop of Seu d'Urgell, Spain--serve equally as heads of state, and each is represented in Andorra by a delegate. (references)

Political Rights

China

Rural citizens vote directly for their local village committees, which are not considered to be government bodies, and among party-reviewed candidates for delegate positions in township and county-level people's congresses. (references)

Cameroon

Delegate-run cities, of which there were only four in 1992, by 1996 included most of the provincial capitals and some division capitals in pro-opposition provinces, but not in the southern provinces that had tended to support the CPDM. In 1998 a 60-member Committee on Good Governance, created by the Government, publicly recommended that the Government eliminate the position of delegate to allow elected local officials to manage municipal governments more freely. (references)

Trade

Venezuela

The government can delegate authority to import on its behalf, and can place orders for such products with the local sales agents of the foreign manufacturers. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

Even if the principal host is not heavily involved in the details of the conversation, guests should remember to address include the principal in the conversation allowing him or her to delegate authority to answer. (references)

Worker Rights

Panama

It requires mandatory arbitration of disputes; and it allows for the participation of an unrepresentative worker delegate in the tripartite (government, labor, and industry) arbitration commission. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "delegate": Apostolic delegate ♦ convention delegate ♦ delegate smb. to do smth. ♦ walking delegate. Additional references.

Beginning with "delegate": delegate-general.

Ending with "delegate": Minister-delegate, Ministers-delegate, sub-delegate.

Albanian

delegoj (depute), delegat (deputy, spokesman), dërgoj (cable, consign, deliver, despatch, detach, direct, dispatch, refer, relegate, send, send off, set forth, set off, transmit), përfaqësues (commissioner, deputy, exponent, factor, legate, representative, spokesman, vakeel, Vakil), ngarkoj (attribute, burden, charge, commission, cumber, encumber, entrain, entruck, freight, impose, impute, Lade, load, saddle, ship, weight), i dërguar (commissary, emissary, envoy, legate, remittent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوض (accredit, authorise, authorize, commission, deputize, empower, entrust), ‏مفوض (authorized, commissioned, commissioner, deputy, mandatary, proxy), ‏ممثل (actor, agent, deputy, performer, player, rep, representative, stager, star, vicar), ‏مندوب (deputy, envoy, representative), ‏موفد (envoy), ‏مبعوث (emissary, envoy, messenger), ‏نائب (acting, agent, junior, procurator, representative, surrogate, vicar), ‏إنتدب (depute, deputize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упълномощавам (accredit, authorise, authorize, commission, empower, enable, entitle, warrant), пратеник (ambassador, emissary, envoy, messenger), изпращам (consign, deliver, dismiss, dispatch, get off, pack off, relegate, see, see off, send, send off, send on, send out, ship, wing), делегат (mouth, secondary, spokesman), делегирам (depute), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, confer, dig up, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references)

Chinese 

代表 (representative, to represent, to stand for). (various references)

Czech

delegovat (depute, deputize, second), delegát. (various references)

Danish

delegeret (deputy, representative). (various references)

Dutch

delegeren, afvaardigen (depute), afgevaardigde (deputy, representative). (various references)

Esperanto

deputito (deputy, representative), deputato (deputy, representative), delegito, delegi, delegato (deputy, representative). (various references)

Faeroese

sendimaður. (various references)

Farsi 

محول کردن به , نماینده (Agent, Deputation, Deputy, Doer, Envoy, Exponent, Indicator, Proxy, Representation, Representative, Symptomatic), نمایندگی دادن (Deputize), وکالت دادن (Empower). (various references)

Finnish

valtuutettu (attorney, authorized, authorized agent, empowered, holder of power, legal representative, nominee, proxy), edustaja (exponent, member of the parliament, representative, spokesman). (various references)

French

déléguer (deluge, depute, devolve), représentant (deputy), député (deputy), délégué. (various references)

Frisian

deputearre (deputy, representative), ôffurdigje (depute), ôffurdige (deputy, representative), ôffeardige (deputy, representative). (various references)

German

delegieren (depute), abgeordnete (assembly man, assemblyman, back bencher, Burgess, deputy, floor, member, member of parliament, private member, representative), Delegierter, delegiert, abordnen (depute, second), Abgesandte (emissary, envoy). (various references)

Greek 

εξουσιοδοτώ (accredit, authorise, authorize, depute, empower, entitle, warrant), αναθέτω (allocate, assign, charge, commend to, confide, entrust, recommend), αντιπρόσωποσ (agent, correspondent, representative, surrogate, vice gerent), αντιπρόσωπος (dealer, representative), απεσταλμένοσ (emissary, envoy, messenger, missive), αποστέλλω σαν αντιπρόσωπο. (various references)

Hebrew 

משולח (abandoned, emmisary, envoy, missionary), ליפות כח (authorise, authorize, empower), שליח (agent, courier, deputy, emissary, legate, messenger, missionary), בא כח (agent, attorney, proxy, representative, spokesman), � בחר (chosen, elected, hand picked, representative, selected), � צי�' (agent, deputy, representative). (various references)

Hungarian

meghatalmazott (accredited, commissioned, commissioner, mandatory, proxy, substitute, trustee), kiküldött követ, kiküld (detach, send out, to delegate, to depute, to draft, to send out), képviselő (agent, congressman, congressmen, representative, to serve in parliament). (various references)

Indonesian

deligir, utusan (deputation, envoi, messenger, mission), mendelegasikan, kuasa (able, authority, might, power). (various references)

Italian

delegato (deputy, empowered person, envoy, person empowered, representative, substitute), deputato (deputy, parliamentarian, private member, representative). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

使節 (embassy, envoy, mission), 代議�"� (representative), 代表者 (representative), �"議�"� . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しせつ (embassy, engineer, envoy, establishment, facility, institution, mission, personal opinion, private, the teacher's theory), きょうぎい�", � いぎい�" (representative), � いひょうしゃ (representative). (various references)

Korean 

대표 (representation, Re-presentation). (various references)

Manx

ynnydagh (attorney, deputy, local, representative), jannoo chaghter, cur magh (board out, deal, delegation, dispatch, dispensation, dispense, displace, edition, eject, ejection, emission, emit, evacuate, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, exude, issue, lay out, publication, publish, push out, put out, run out, turn out), chaghter (commissionaire, dispatch rider, emissary, envoy, go-between, herald). (various references)

Norwegian

delegere, utsending (envoy). (various references)

Papiamen

delegado. (various references)

Pig Latin

elegateday

Portuguese

delegado (assign, commissary, commissioner, deputy, empowered person, legate, person empowered, substitute, surrogate, vicar), deputado (Assemblyman, Burgess, commissary, congressman, deputy, parliamentarian), delegar (depute, devolve, empress). (various references)

Romanian

delegat (authorized, commissary, deputy, mandatory, proxy, representative, substitute), delega (authorise, authorize, commission, depute, deputize, order), trimis (apostle, envoy, officer). (various references)

Russian 

представитель (deputy, exhibitor, exponent, officials, representative, spokesman, spokesmen, spokesperson, syndic), посылать (bunt, despatch, dispatch, refer, send, sends, sent, tender, transmit), делегировать (depute). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

delegirati, delegat, poveriti (confide, entrust, intrust). (various references)

Spanish

diputar (depute, deputize), diputado (Burgess, deputy, member, representative), delegar (commission, depute, deputize, devolve), delegado (deputy, empowered person, person empowered, vicarious). (various references)

Swedish

befullmäktigad (attorney, empowered person, mandatory, person empowered, plenipotentiary, proxy). (various references)

Turkish

delege olarak yetkilendirmek, delege atamak, delege (commissioner, deputy, envoy), vekil (administrator, alternate, assignee, attorney, commissary, commissioner, deputy, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, minister, nominee, proxy, representative, stand in, substitute, supply, surrogate, vicar, vice, vice gerent), temsilci (agent, ambassador, commissionaire, coryphaeus, deputy, emissary, envoy, nominee, rep, representative, spokesman, substitute), ihale etmek (adjudicate, award, let, let out, transfer), elçi (ambassador, envoy, Herald, legate). (various references)

Turkmen 

delegat. (various references)

Ukranian 

уповноважувати (accredit, authorize, commission, empower, warrant), представник (agent, assignee, deputy, exponent, representative, secondary, speaker, spokesman), посланець (ambassador, express, messenger, missionary, nunciate, nuncio), посилати (address, dispatch, forward, order, refer, send, send for), делегувати (depute), делегат. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người đại diện người được uỷ nhiệm, người đại biểu. (various references)

Welsh

dirprwy (deputy), cynrychiolydd (representative), cynrychiolwr (representative), anfonog. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "delegate": delegated, delegatee, delegatees, delegates. (additional references)

Words ending with "delegate": nondelegate. (additional references)

Words containing "delegate": nondelegates, undelegated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Delegate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dalegarth, Dalgetty, dealbata, delagate, delagatee, Delagoa, Delapage, deleate, delegater, delegats, delgate, deliate, delimate, deliwate, Dulgate, elegate, Helogale, Leleatta, Welega. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gelated, gleeted, legated, legatee.

-2 letters: delate, delete, eaglet, elated, gelate, legate, telega.

-3 letters: aglee, aglet, dealt, delta, eagle, elate, gated, gelee, glade, glede, gleed, gleet, lated, ledge, telae.

-4 letters: aged, agee, alee, dale, date, deal, deet, dele, delt, edge, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gate, geed, geld, gelt, geta, glad, gled, glee, lade, late, lead, leet, tael, tale, teal, teed, teel, tela, tele.

-5 letters: age, ale, alt, ate, dag, dal, dee, del, eat, eel, eld, eta, gad, gae, gal, gat, ged, gee, gel, get, lad, lag, lat, lea, led, lee, leg, let, tad, tae, tag, tea, ted, tee, teg, tel.

+1 letter: delegated, delegatee, delegates, regelated, relegated.

+2 letters: delegatees, deregulate.

+3 letters: decolletage, deregulated, deregulates, nondelegate, reregulated, telegrammed, telegraphed, undelegated.

+4 letters: decelerating, decolletages, degenerately, largehearted, nondelegates, outgeneraled.

+5 letters: exaggeratedly, overregulated.

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