delegate — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

2. A representative at a conference, etc.

3. An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.

   Uso

   • uso estadounidense

4. A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (1)

   Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

5. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.

   Ejemplos

   The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.

Verbo

1. To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

   Ejemplos

   Más ejemplos (1)

   New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was perceived to delegate effectively. Wayne Mapp, a minister under Key observed he had 'a different style than the traditional style of New Zealand political management. He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014).

2. To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinónimos

   turn over

   Ejemplos

   The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.

3. To appoint (someone) as one's representative.

   Uso

   • transitivo

4. (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.

   Uso

   • Internet
   • transitivo

Adjetivo

1. delegated

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • en desuso
   • participle
   • past

2. Acting as a delegate, delegated; of, pertaining to a delegate

   Uso

   • adjective
   • not-comparable
   • en desuso

Sustantivo

1. a person appointed or elected to represent others

   Términos más generales

   representative

Verbo

1. transfer power to someone

   Sinónimos

   depute

   Términos más generales

   designatedeputeassign

2. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

   Sinónimos

   designatedeputeassign

   Términos más generales

   appointcharge