All 3 Uses of
delegate
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Well, it's like this, Miss Taggart," said the delegate of the Union of Locomotive Engineers.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- I was the walking delegate of this strike, the leader of the victims' rebellion, the defender of the oppressed, the disinherited, the exploited-and when I use these words, they have, for once, a literal meaning.†
Chpt 3.1
- While the flour mills and grain markets of the country were screaming over the phones and the telegraph wires, sending pleas to New York and delegations to Washington, while strings of freight cars from random corners of the continent were crawling like rusty caterpillars across the map in the direction of Minnesota-the wheat and hope of the country were waiting to perish along an empty track, under the unchanging green lights of signals that called for motion to trains that were not…†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(delegate as in: is a delegate) a person appointed or elected to represent others