Definitions
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Word origin
From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.”
“The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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