delegate
Other forms: delegates; delegated; delegating
Delegate lends an official air to passing off your work. If you don't like cleaning the bathroom, you can try to delegate that task to your little brother.
A delegate is also an elected official, or the person who is doing the task you delegated them to do. In presidential primaries in the United States, you do not vote for a candidate, you vote for a delegate whose job it is to vote for that candidate at a convention. Be careful with how you pronounce the end of the word. The elected official is pronounced DE-lə-git whereas delegate as a verb should be DE-lə-gāt.
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give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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mandate
assign authority to
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cast
select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet
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post
assign to a post; put into a post
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cast
assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors
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devolve
pass on or delegate to another
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task
assign a task to
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place
place somebody in a particular situation or location
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regiment
assign to a regiment
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reassign, transfer
transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
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depute
transfer power to someone
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mandate
assign under a mandate
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advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade
give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
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break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate
assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
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place
assign to (a job or a home)
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recast
cast again, in a different role
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miscast
cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role
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typecast
cast repeatedly in the same kind of role
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second
transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
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exchange
hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
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tenure
give life-time employment to
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bring up
promote from a lower position or rank
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spot promote
promote on the spot
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ennoble, entitle, gentle
give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility
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sideline
remove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position
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reduce
bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
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favor, favour, prefer
promote over another
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brevet
promote somebody by brevet, in the military
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transfer power to someone
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a person appointed or elected to represent others
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apostolic delegate
(Roman Catholic Church) a representative of the Holy See in a country that has no formal diplomatic relations with it
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representative
a person who represents others
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apostolic delegate
Vocabulary lists containing delegate
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In this memoir, Francisco Jiménez details his family's experiences as Mexican immigrants in the United states during the 1950s and 1960s.
Eighth-grader Kevin can't help telling lies but when the lies pile up and get him into big trouble, he has to find a way to make things right — and end his lying streak.
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