Sample sentences for DELEGATE - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
is a delegate

Definition

a person appointed or elected to represent others

She is a delegate representing our state at the national convention.

Other Uses (with this meaning)

My father fired him, but some other teachers were worried and sent a delegation to his office.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

delegation = group of people who represent others

(editor's note: 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.)

If you did then I'd tell them I don't care about their delegations and their petitions, and I'd stick up for you against all of them.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

delegations = groups of people appointed or elected to represent others

two men approached Cesar and introduced themselves as members of a special Mexican delegation.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game

delegation = a group of people appointed or elected to represent others

I did not write the speech only with the UN delegates in mind; I wrote it for every person around the world who could make a difference.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

delegates = people who represent their countries

There was a delegation in to see me last night.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

delegation = group of people appointed or elected to represent others

One night, after the mufti had failed to persuade our landlady to cancel our lease, he gathered some of the influential people and elders of our mohalla into a delegation and turned up at our door.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

delegation = group of people who represent others

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.
George Orwell -- 1984

delegates = people representing others

I turned around and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

delegation = people who rode the bus into town rather than living there

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2 —as in:
delegate the job

Definition

assign tasks to other people (rather than doing them personally)

As the company grew larger, she had to delegate more responsibility to others.

delegate = assign tasks to other people (rather than doing them herself)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

But I had not yet learned to delegate authority.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers

delegate = assign tasks to other people (rather than doing them personally)

They say that historical personages have power only because they fulfill the will of the people which has been delegated to them.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
I understood now that Stone had been delegated to break the news.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
He delegated to Kreacher the task of telling me what had happened.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The funds were to be used liberally in pursuit of the assignments delegated to me.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
She turned on her netlink as soon as she reached the elevator, delegating the coronation proceedings to a corner of her vision.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
He delegated Doug Sanders and Mick Mahmud as firetenders, passed the word that no one else was to put fuel on the fires.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
But consider—you need not be afraid of delegating power to me.
Jane Austen -- Emma
It will readily be seen that in this case the alleged right of the Duke to the whale was a delegated one from the Sovereign.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

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