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発音 1

• enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gət, IPA: /ˈdɛlɪɡət/

名詞

delegate (plural delegates)

1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. A representative at a conference, etc.
3. (US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
4. (computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
   • 2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi:

     Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.

5. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.

   The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:deputy

関連する語

• (computing): function pointer

語源 2

From the above noun by metanalysis or directly borrowed from Latin dēlēgātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

発音 2

• enPR: dĕlʹĭ-gāt', IPA: /ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

動詞

delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)

1. (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
   • 2020, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Management: The Dance of Government and Politics:

     New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was perceived to delegate effectively. Wayne Mapp, a minister under Key observed he had 'a different style than the traditional style of New Zealand political management. He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014).

2. (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
   • 2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian‎:

     The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.

3. (computing, Internet, transitive) (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 delegat(e) (“delegated”, used as a past participle and adjective), used as the past participle of delegate up until Early Modern English, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

形容詞

delegate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, past participle) delegated
2. (obsolete, adjective) Acting as a delegate, delegated; of, pertaining to a delegate