Definition of "delegate" in English

noun

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.

5. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.

   • The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.

verb

1. (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.

2. (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.

3. (computing, Internet, transitive) (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.

adjective

1. (obsolete, past participle) delegated

2. (obsolete, adjective) Acting as a delegate, delegated; of, pertaining to a delegate