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delegate as in:  is a delegate

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    At the international conference, each country sent a delegate to represent their interests and participate in the discussions.
    delegate = person representing others
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    He looks serious, focused, like he's a real delegate and this isn't pretend.  (source)
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    My father fired him, but some other teachers were worried and sent a delegation to his office.  (source)
    delegation = group of people who represent others
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    "When you were speaking to Sam's delegates earlier," he murmured, "I was giving a play-by-play for Carlisle and Esme and the rest."  (source)
    delegates = people representing others
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    Kai shaking hands with some unknown delegate.  (source)
    delegate = person representing others
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    First, he took out the photograph of the Delegation and placed it on the desk where it belonged.  (source)
    Delegation = group of representatives
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Interminable lines of people streamed by to shake my hand, cars blocked all the cemetery gates, and a hodgepodge of delegations—poor people, students, labor unionists, nuns, mongoloid children, bohemians, and spiritualists—came to pay her their respects.†  (source)
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    It was a half-page torn out of The Times of about ten years earlier — the top half of the page, so that it included the date — and it contained a photograph of the delegates at some Party function in New York.  (source)
    delegates = people representing others
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    I thought I spotted the director of the funeral home—the mortician, or his delegate.†  (source)
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    The Royal Canadian Regiment had sent a delegation, all the way from Wolseley Barracks in London, and Major M. K. Greene laid a wreath.  (source)
    delegation = group of representatives
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    In an attempt to learn the secrets of the jinn, the Scholars sent delegations to negotiate with the King-of-No-Name.†  (source)
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    The convention was deadlocked between the two leading candidates, so, Daugherty predicted, the delegates would be forced to look for an alternative.†  (source)
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    He had to delegate authority to a small circle of trusted manhunters, including Lieutenant Lafayette Baker, newly arrived from New York.†  (source)
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delegate as in:  delegate the job

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    The manager delegated the project to a trusted team member.
    delegated = assigned (a task)
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    So finally they delegated me to tell him that he needed to take a bath more often.  (source)
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    For Jozef Halecki was one of those rare executives who had mastered the secret of delegation—that is, having assigned the oversight of the hotel's various functions to capable lieutenants, he made himself scarce.  (source)
    delegation = assignment of tasks to other people (rather than doing them personally)
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    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.  (source)
    delegated = assigned
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    She turned on her netlink as soon as she reached the elevator, delegating the coronation proceedings to a corner of her vision.  (source)
    delegating = assigning
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    "I'll write a program called a delegator," Trish explained.†  (source)
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    The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.  (source)
    delegation = assignment of tasks to other people (rather than doing them personally)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    This new arrangement didn't bother Tita, it was a relief to delegate to Chencha the painful duty of caring for her mother, so that she was free to start embroidering the bedsheets for her trousseau.  (source)
    delegate = assign (responsibility)
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    He delegated to Kreacher the task of telling me what had happened.†  (source)
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    My father was a realist who made his living socializing and delegating.†  (source)
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    This Sharmak was an excellent delegator.†  (source)
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    The Rev. "Pinky" Scammon also taught Religion at Gravesend Academy, where his courses were known to begin and end with apologies for Kierkegaard; but old Pinky Scammon cleverly delegated much of the teaching of his Religion classes to guest preachers, too.†  (source)
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    Delegating is pretty much impossible; I can be downright controlling.†  (source)
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