delegate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person chosen to speak or act for a group of others.

   Each country sent a delegate to the conference.

2. 2
   verb

   To give a task or responsibility to someone else, especially someone who works for you.

   A good manager knows how to delegate work to the team.

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.

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