| delegate | |
| 1. n. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy | |
| 2. n. a representative at a conference, etc. | |
| 3. n. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies | |
| 4. n. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer | |
| 5. v. to authorize someone to be a delegate | |
| 6. v. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate | |
| 7. v. (computing, Internet) (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 | |
