delegate

English

Etymology

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

• Audio (UK):

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Verb

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

• Audio (UK):

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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.
   • 2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010 (page xxvi)

     Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deputy

Hypernyms

(computing) Hyponyms of delegate

• multicast delegate
• singlecast delegate

 

Related terms

• (computing): function pointer

Translations

deputy, envoy, representative

• Albanian: delegat (sq) m
• Arabic: مُوْفَد m (muwfad), وَكِيل (ar) m (wakīl)
• Armenian: պատգամավոր (hy) (patgamavor), պատվիրակ (hy) (patvirak)
• Azerbaijani: nümayəndə (az)
• Belarusian: дэлега́т m (deljehát), дэлега́тка f (deljehátka)
• Bengali: প্রতিনিধি (protinidhi)
• Bulgarian: делега́т (bg) m (delegát), представи́тел (bg) m (predstavítel)
• Burmese: ကိုယ်စားလှယ် (my) (kuiyca:hlai)
• Catalan: delegat (ca) m, delegada (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: delegát (cs) m
• Danish: delegeret c, repræsentant c, befuldmægtiget c
• Dutch: afgevaardigde (nl) m, gedelegeerde (nl) m
• Finnish: edustaja (fi)
• French: délégué (fr) m, déléguée (fr) f
• Georgian: დელეგატი (delegaṭi)
• German: Delegierter (de) m, Abgeordneter (de) m, Vertreter (de) m
• Greek: απεσταλμένος (el) m (apestalménos), απεσταλμένη (el) f (apestalméni)
• Hebrew: בא-כוח m (bá-kóakh), נציג (he) m (natzíg)
• Hindi: प्रतिनिधि (hi) m (pratinidhi)
• Hungarian: küldött (hu), delegátus (hu)
• Interlingua: delegato m, delegata f
• Italian: delegato (it) m, delegata (it) f
• Japanese: 代表 (ja) (だいひょう, daihyō), 使節 (ja) (しせつ, shisetsu), 代理人 (ja) (だいりにん, dairinin)
• Kazakh: делегат (delegat), өкіл (ökıl)
• Khmer: បេសកជន (peesa’ka’cʊən), ប្រតិភូ (km) (prɑte’pʰuu)
• Korean: 대표 (ko) (daepyo), 사절 (ko) (sajeol), 대리인 (ko) (daeriin), 대리자 (ko) (daerija)
• Kyrgyz: делегат (delegat)
• Lao: ຜູ້ແທນ (phū thǣn), ຜູ້ຕາງຫນ້າ (phū tāng nā)
• Macedonian: делегат m (delegat)
• Maori: taraketi
• Norman: d'lédgi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: delegat m

  Nynorsk: delegat m

• Pashto: نماينده (ps) m (namāyəndá)
• Persian: نماینده (fa) (namâyande), وکیل (fa) (vakil)
• Polish: delegat (pl) m
• Portuguese: delegado (pt) m, delegada f
• Romanian: delegat (ro) m
• Russian: делега́т (ru) m (delegát), делега́тка (ru) f (delegátka), представи́тель (ru) m (predstavítelʹ), представи́тельница (ru) f (predstavítelʹnica)
• Scottish Gaelic: neach-ionaid m, riochdaire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: делегат m

  Roman: delegat (sh) m

• Slovak: delegát m
• Slovene: delegat m, delegatka f
• Spanish: delegado (es) m, delegada (es) f
• Swedish: delegat (sv) c
• Tajik: намоянда (namoyanda), вакил (vakil)
• Thai: ตัวแทน (th) (dtuua-tɛɛn), ผู้แทน (th) (pûu-tɛɛn)
• Turkish: delege (tr)
• Turkmen: delegat
• Ukrainian: делега́т m (delehát), делега́тка f (delehátka)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ۋەكىل (wekil)
• Uzbek: vakil (uz), delegat (uz), namoyanda (uz)
• Vietnamese: đại biểu (vi)

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
   • 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.

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 (hy) (patvirakel), լիազորել (hy) (liazorel)
• Asturian: delegar
• Belarusian: дэлегава́ць impf or pf (deljehavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: делегирам (bg) (delegiram), упълномощавам (bg) (upǎlnomoštavam)
• Catalan: delegar (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: delegovat (cs)
• Danish: overdrage, delegere (da), uddelegere, betro
• Dutch: delegeren (nl)
• Estonian: delegeerima
• Finnish: delegoida (fi), antaa tehtäväksi, valtuuttaa (fi)
• French: déléguer (fr)
• German: delegieren (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: διατάσσω (diatássō)

• Hungarian: delegál (hu)
• Italian: delegare (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: deleģēt
• Maori: tuku mana
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: d'lédgi
• Norwegian: delegere
• Persian: سپردن (fa), تفویض کردن
• Portuguese: delegar (pt)
• Romanian: delega (ro)
• Russian: поруча́ть (ru) impf (poručátʹ), поручи́ть (ru) pf (poručítʹ), уполномо́чивать (ru) impf (upolnomóčivatʹ), уполномо́чить (ru) pf (upolnomóčitʹ), делеги́ровать (ru) impf or pf (delegírovatʹ)
• Spanish: diputar (es)
• Swedish: delegera (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: делегува́ти impf or pf (delehuváty)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

delegate

1. feminine plural of delegato

Participle

delegate f pl

1. feminine plural of delegato

Etymology 2

Noun

delegate f

1. plural of delegata

Etymology 3

Verb

delegate

1. inflection of delegare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēlēgāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēlēgō