delegate /ˈdɛlɪɡət/noun 5adjective 2/ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/ verb 4forms 3 noun5 •A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy. •A representative at a conference, etc. •(US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies. •A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power. •A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.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. — 2010 adjective2 •(no longer used) delegated •(no longer used) Acting as a delegate, delegated; of, pertaining to a delegate delegate /ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/ verb4 •To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates. •To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data. — 2020 •(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. •To appoint (someone) as one's representative. formsdelegated · delegating · delegates
