Definitions for delegates

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delegates del·e·gate

Spelling: [noun del-i-git, -geyt; verb del-i-geyt]

IPA: /noun ˈdɛl ɪ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt; verb ˈdɛl ɪˌgeɪt/

Delegates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 353 anagrams from letters in delegates (adeeeglst).

Definitions for delegates

noun

1. a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a political convention.
2. (formerly) the representative of a Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives.
3. a member of the lower house of the state legislature of Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia.

verb (used with object)

1. to send or appoint (a person) as deputy or representative.
2. to commit (powers, functions, etc.) to another as agent or deputy.

Origin of delegates

1350-1400; Middle English (noun) Medieval Latin dēlēgātus, noun use of Latin: past participle of dēlēgāre to assign, equivalent to dē- de- + lēgātus deputed; see

Examples for delegates

I am the unworthy servant and delegate of him who holds the keys.

Under the Soviet regime, people preferred to delegate power and decision-making to others—Stalin, for example.

He was made a delegate of the Red Committee less than a year after his release on licence.

And he—he had striven to delegate to others the burden he was meant to bear.

Though the commander-in-chief should delegate as much as possible, wartime relationships matter.

This is more important than it may seem because it only allows a two-week window where delegate contests have to be proportional.

It does not say that a delegate must not be a woman, or must be a man.

It seemed that little Shirley Temple had grown up to be a delegate to the United Nations.

The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll.

A blow, a shot, a shower of stones, and the peace is broken and the delegate is justified.