Definition of Delegate

Delegate

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.

One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution.

Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.

To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.

To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.

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Delegate Quotations

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
Mercy Otis Warren

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.
Donald Rumsfeld

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
Alton Brown

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
Elliot Richardson

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
Byron Dorgan

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
Mitchell Baker

So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
Kelly Preston

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
Jurgen Klinsmann

In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.
Frederick Reines

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Delegate Translations

delegate in Danish is delegeret
delegate in Dutch is delegeren, afvaardigen
delegate in German is Abgeordnete {m}, Abgesandte {m}, delegiert
delegate in Norwegian is delegere, utsending
delegate in Portuguese is delegado
delegate in Spanish is delegado

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