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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Delegate \Del"e*gate\, n. [L. delegatus, p. p. of delegare to send, delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See Legate .] Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person appointed or elected to represent others v. transfer power to someone [syn: depute ] give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: designate , depute , assign ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Delegate or delegates may refer to: a delegate , a member of a group representing an organization (such as a union) at a meeting (such as a national conference of unions) Delegate (United States Congress) an apostolic delegate , an ambassador and diplomatic ...

Usage examples of delegate.

There were several women delegates and Ken made the most of their ablutions until he was distracted by the appearance of Karanja in a neat grey suit, an ingratiating grin on his face and his big ears standing out like sails.

Constitution, which, it is submitted, was merely the power to amend the delegated grants, and these were obtained by the separate and independent action of each State acceding to the Union.

Dagarron exchanged affable hand clasps with Lord Ioruan, another delegate.

Major Migel affectionately dubbed the Forest Hills trio, that they had entertained almost every delegate to the World Conference, keeping open house and lunching or dining as many of the foreign visitors as possible.

Developed by the British to stop the rush of fanatical tribesmen, the bullets were vigorously defended by Sir John Ardagh against the heated attack of all except the American military delegate, Captain Crozier, whose country was about to make use of them in the Philippines.

I will specially supplicate this bounty for the representative delegates to be assembled at Convention this year.

Shoghi Effendi hopes that the National Assembly will do its best to win the admiration of all the assembled delegates for the teachings of the Cause along that line.

It is my firm conviction that it is the bounden duty, in the interest of the Cause we all love and serve, of the members of the incoming National Assembly, once elected by the delegates at Convention time, to seek and have the utmost regard, individually as well as collectively, for the advice, the considered opinion and the true sentiments of the assembled delegates.

Convention, I feel that the dominating purpose inspiring the assembled friends, delegates and visitors alike, should be a two-fold one.

How great the privilege, how delicate the task of the assembled delegates whose function it is to elect such national representatives as would by their record of service ennoble and enrich the annals of the Cause!

It would avoid the inconvenience of securing advance nominations from absent delegates, and the impracticality of associating them with the assembled electors in the subsequent ballots that are often required to meet the exigencies of majority vote.

An outlandish delegate sustained against both these views, with such heat as almost carried conviction, the theory of copulation between women and the males of brutes, his authority being his own avouchment in support of fables such as that of the Minotaur which the genius of the elegant Latin poet has handed down to us in the pages of his Metamorphoses.

How this simple axiom sweeps away, for instance, the cobweb speculations as to whether voting is a natural right, or a privilege delegated by society!

Michaelmas, or, at the very least, a bailie, to the end that ye might be chosen delegate, it being an unusual thing for anybody under the degree of a bailie to be chosen thereto?

This was a cordial to his spirit, and, without more ado, we both of us set to work to get the bailie made the delegate.