delegate

1. 1.

   a person appointed or elected to represent others

   Broaderrepresentative

   Narrowerapostolic delegate

Other forms of delegate

plural

delegates·

past tense

delegated·

present participle

delegating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about delegate

What does delegate mean?

delegate means "transfer power to someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in delegate?

delegate has 3 syllables: del-e-gate. The stress falls on "del". In IPA it is /ˈdɛləˌɡeɪt/.

What is another word for delegate?

Close synonyms include depute, designate, depute, assign. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is delegate a common word?

delegate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with delegate?

28 words rhyme with delegate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.