delegate

Meanings

1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. A representative at a conference, etc.
3. An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
4. 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.

1. To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
2. To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
3. (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.

1. delegated
2. Acting as a delegate, delegated; of, pertaining to a delegate

1. A locality in the Snowy Monaro council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Etymology

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.