delegate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- Noun
- Verb
delegate (plural delegates)
- a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
- a representative at a conference, etc.
- (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
- (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
- See also Thesaurus:deputy
- (computing) function pointer
- French: délégué, déléguée
- German: Delegierter, Abgeordneter, Vertreter
- Italian: delegato, delegata
- Portuguese: delegado, delegada
- Russian: делега́т
- Spanish: delegado, delegada
delegate (delegates, present participle delegating; past and past participle delegated)
- to authorize someone to be a delegate
- to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
- (computing, Internet) (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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