noun, verb
noun a person who is chosen or elected to represent the views of a group of people and vote and make decisions for them:
The conference was attended by delegates from 56 countries.
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ (sth) (to sb) to give part of your work, power or authority to sb in a lower position than you:
[V] Some managers find it difficult to delegate. * [VN] The job had to be delegated to an assistant.
2 [VNtoinf] [usuallypassive] to choose sb to do sth:
I've been delegated to organize the Christmas party.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for delegate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is delegate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, delegate is tagged as verb.
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