Sample Sentences for
delegate
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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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    Kai shaking hands with some unknown delegate.  (source)
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    He looks serious, focused, like he's a real delegate and this isn't pretend.  (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 could check things off lists, delegate.†  (source)
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    I turned around and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me.  (source)
    delegation = people who rode the bus into town rather than living there
    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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    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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    "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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    I thought I spotted the director of the funeral home—the mortician, or his delegate.†  (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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    I wrote newspaper articles, led parades and relief delegations, and so on.†  (source)
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    Twenty delegates were recalled by their congregations.†  (source)
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    But I have a lot of duties and I have to delegate.†  (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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    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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    So finally they delegated me to tell him that he needed to take a bath more often.  (source)
    delegated = assigned (a task)
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    He delegated the patrol order to me and the course of action for battle stations to Casanova.†  (source)
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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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    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)
    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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    Red carpeting divided the room into the seats for the press and guests, and the four seats delegated for us.†  (source)
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    Delegating is pretty much impossible; I can be downright controlling.†  (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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    But consider—you need not be afraid of delegating power to me.†  (source)
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    I ran a delegator that tapped a search engine at this IP and pulled a redacted document.†  (source)
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