Definition of delegate

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

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Vicariate :: Vicariate (a.) Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious..
Democracy :: Democracy (n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic..
Delegate :: Delegate (n.) 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..
Consociation :: Consociation (n.) A voluntary and permanent council or union of neighboring Congregational churches, for mutual advice and cooperation in ecclesiastical matters; a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united..
Vicariate :: Vicariate (n.) Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar.
-ate :: -ate () As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate..
Delegacy :: Delegacy (a.) A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation.
Manipulate :: Manipulate (v. t.) To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns..
Mission :: Mission (n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission..
Secondary :: Secondary (n.) One who occupies a subordinate, inferior, or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy; one who is second or next to the chief officer; as, the secondary, or undersheriff of the city of London..
Deputation :: Deputation (n.) The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency..
Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
Apocrisiarius :: Apocrisiarius (n.) A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople..
Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.
Subdelegate :: Subdelegate (n.) A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers..
Delegated :: Delegated (imp. & p. p.) of Delegat.
Caucus :: Caucus (n.) A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting..
Vicegerent :: Vicegerent (a.) Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another..
Depute :: Depute (v. t.) To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
Resumption :: Resumption (n.) The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc..
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