Dictionary Entry
delegate
delegate is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
- 2noun
One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
- 3noun
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.
- 4adjective
Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.
- 5transitive verb
To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
- 6transitive verb
To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
- 7noun
a person appointed or elected to represent others
- 8verb
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- 9verb
transfer power to someone
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