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Dictionary: del·e·gate   (dĕl'ĭ-gāt', -gĭt) pronunciation
n.
  1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.
  2. A representative to a conference or convention.
  3. A member of a House of Delegates, the lower house of the Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia legislature.
  4. An elected or appointed representative of a U.S. territory in the House of Representatives who is entitled to speak but not vote.
tr.v., -gat·ed, -gat·ing, -gates. (-gāt')
  1. To authorize and send (another person) as one's representative.
  2. To commit or entrust to another: delegate a task to a subordinate.
  3. Law. To appoint (one's debtor) as a debtor to one's creditor in place of oneself.

[Middle English delegat, from Medieval Latin dēlēgātus, from past participle of dēlēgāre, to dispatch : Latin dē-, de- + Latin lēgāre, to send.]

delegator del'e·ga'tor n.

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Business Dictionary: Delegate
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1. (verb) appoint, authorize, or commission; transfer authority from one person to another. Efficient management requires delegating authority but not necessarily responsibility.

2. (noun) person commissioned to act instead of another.

Thesaurus: delegate
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noun

    One who stands for another: deputy, representative. See substitute.

Antonyms: delegate
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v

Definition: assign responsibility; empower
Antonyms: keep


Political Dictionary: delegate
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A person on whom an individual or group confers the capacity to act on his or their behalf. The central idea of delegation is that the person who delegates passes authority or responsibility to the person who is delegated to carry out a task or assume a role: hence a delegate may also be a representative (see also representation). The relationship between the principal (who delegates) and the agent may be variously understood. For example, a delegate may be sent to a meeting only in order to report back to his or her principals, or may be sent with authority to bind his or her principals to a decision. Delegation thus involves the notions of authorization, accountability, and responsibility, but any specific act of delegation will contain particular applications of these ideas.

— Andrew Reeve

Law Encyclopedia: Delegate
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This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

A person who is appointed, authorized, delegated, or commissioned to act in the place of another. Transfer of authority from one to another. A person to whom affairs are committed by another.

A person elected or appointed to be a member of a representative assembly. Usually spoken of one sent to a special or occasional assembly or convention. Person selected by a constituency and authorized to act for it at a party or state political convention.

As a verb, it means to transfer authority from one person to another; to empower one to perform a task in behalf of another, e.g., a landlord may delegate an agent to collect rents.

Word Tutor: delegate
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: A person sent to speak and act for his or her group or branch; representative. Also: to give over a right or duty to another; entrust.

pronunciation You can delegate authority, but not responsibility. — Stephen W. Comiskey.

Wikipedia: Delegate
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A delegate is a person sponsoring an organization (e.g., a government, a charity, an NGO,a trade union) at a meeting or conference between organizations of the same level (e.g. trade talks or an environmental summit between governments; an arbitration over an industrial dispute; or a meeting of student unions from individual colleges at a national student union conference).

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Politics

United States of America

Delegates convention. Some of the officials involved in the process are called superdelegates.

Delegate is the title of a person elected to the United States House of Representatives to serve the interests of an organized United States territory, at present only overseas or the District of Columbia, but historically in most cases in a portion of North America as precursor to one or more of the present states of the union. Delegates have powers similar to that of Representatives, including the right to vote in committee, but have no right to take part in the floor votes in which the full house actually decides whether the proposal is carried. See: Delegate (United States Congress).

A similar mandate is held in a few cases under the style Resident commissioner.

  • Members of other parliamentary assemblies, such as the Continental Congress or the New York State Constitutional.
  • Members of a body charged with writing or revising a foundational or other basic governmental document (such as members of a constitutional convention are usually referred to as "delegates".

Democratic Party

The Democratic party of the United States of America uses pledged delegates and superdelegates. A candidate for the Democratic nominee must win a majority of combined delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention, held in Denver, Colorado in August 2008.

Pledged delegates are elected or chosen at the state or local level, with the understanding that they will support a particular candidate at the convention. Pledged delegates are however not actually bound to vote for that candidate, thus the candidates are allowed to periodically review the list of delegates and eliminate any of those they feel would not be supportive. Currently there are 3,253 pledged delegates.

Of the 4,047 total Democratic delegates, 794 are superdelegates, which are usually Democratic members of Congress, governors, former Presidents, and other party leaders. They are not required to indicate preference for a candidate.

The Democratic Party uses a proportional representation to determine how many delegates each candidate is awarded in each state. For example, a candidate who wins 40% of a state's vote in the primary election will win 40% of that state's delegates; however, a candidate must win at least 15% of the primary vote, or they win no delegates. If a candidate wins 14% of the primary election, they receive zero delegates. There is no process to win superdelegates, since they can vote for whomever they please. A candidate needs to win a simple majority of total delegates to earn the Democratic nomination. [1]

Republican Party

The Republican Party of the United States of America utilizes a similar system with slightly different terminology, employing pledged and unpledged delegates. Of the total 2,380 Republican delegates, 1,719 are pledged delegates, who as with the Democratic Party, are elected at the state or local level. To become the Republican Party nominee, the candidate must win a simple majority of 1,191 of the 2,380 total delegates at the Republican National Convention, held in Saint Paul, Minnesota in September 2008.

A majority of the unpledged delegates are elected much like the pledged delegates, and are likely to be committed to a specific candidate. Many of the other unpledged delegates automatically claim the delegate status either by virtue of their position as a party chair or national party committee person. This group is known as unpledged RNC member delegates.

The process by which delegates are awarded to a candidate will vary from state to state. Many states use a winner-take-all system, where popular vote determines the winning candidate for that state, while a few other use a proportional representation. While the Republican National Committee does not require a 15% minimum threshold, individual state parties may however impart such a threshold.

The unpledged RNC member delegates are free to vote for any candidate and are not bound by the electoral votes of their state. The majority of the unpledged delegates (those who are elected or chosen) are technically free to vote for any candidate; however they are likely to be committed to one specifically. [1]

Religion

References

  1. ^ a b www.cnnpolitics.com

Translations: Delegate
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - delegeret, repræsentant
v. tr. - uddelegere, betro, beskikke

Nederlands (Dutch)
afgevaardigde, afvaardigen, delegeren

Français (French)
n. - député, délégué, représentant
v. tr. - déléguer à, se faire représenter par qn pour (faire qch)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Delegierter, Abgeordneter
v. - abordnen, delegieren

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - απεσταλμένος, εκπρόσωπος, αντιπρόσωπος
v. - αναθέτω εκπροσώπηση, μεταβιβάζω/παρέχω (αρμοδιότητες κ.λπ.), εξουσιοδοτώ, αναθέτω εντολή (πληρεξουσιότητας)

Italiano (Italian)
delegare, delegato, deputato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - delegado (m)
v. - delegar

Русский (Russian)
послать в качестве представителя, предоставить полномочия, представитель, делегат

Español (Spanish)
n. - suplente, sustituto, delegado, diputado
v. tr. - delegar, suplir

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - delegat, fullmäktig, representant
v. - delegera, sända, utse, anförtro (myndighet)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
代表, 委派...为代表

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 代表
v. tr. - 委派...為代表

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 대리자, 연방 하원의원, 파견 사절
v. tr. - 참석 시키다, 권한을 부여하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 代表, 使節
v. - 代表に選ぶ, 代表に立てて…させる, 委任する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شخص مختار أو منتخب للتعبير عن وجهه نظر الآخرين, المندوب, النائب ( في البرلمان) (فعل) يعطي مهام أو سلطه مثلا لشخص أقل منه منصبا, ينتدب, يفوض‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נציג, בא-כוח, ציר‬
v. tr. - ‮הסמיך, מינה ציר‬


 
 
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