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delegate

noun

Meaning

  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. To authorize someone to be a delegate
  6. To commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
  7. (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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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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