delegate — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

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 nos Estados Unidos

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

   Exemplos

   Mais exemplos (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.

   Exemplos

   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

   Exemplos

   Mais exemplos (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

   Sinônimos

   turn over

   Exemplos

   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
   • obsoleto
   • participle
   • past

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

   Uso

   • adjective
   • not-comparable
   • obsoleto

Substantivo

1. a person appointed or elected to represent others

   Termos mais gerais

   representative

Verbo

1. transfer power to someone

   Sinônimos

   depute

   Termos mais gerais

   designatedeputeassign

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

   Sinônimos

   designatedeputeassign

   Termos mais gerais

   appointcharge