Usually means: Representative appointed for specific tasks.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word delegate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. delegate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. delegate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delegate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delegate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delegate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Delegate, delegate: Wordnik
  7. delegate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. delegate: Wiktionary
  9. delegate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. delegate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. delegate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. delegate: Dictionary.com
  13. delegate (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. delegate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Delegate (.NET), Delegate (American politics), Delegate (CLI), Delegate (United States Congress), Delegate (disambiguation), Delegate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Delegate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. delegate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. delegate: Rhymezone
  19. delegate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. delegate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. delegate: Free Dictionary
  22. delegate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. delegate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. delegate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. delegate: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  9. delegate: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. delegate: Encyclopedia
  2. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. delegate: Political
  2. delegate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delegate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See delegated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
noun:  A representative at a conference, etc.
noun:  (US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
noun:  (computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
noun:  A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
verb:  (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
verb:  (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
verb:  (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.

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