the idea of elected representatives as being obligated to carry out the expressed wishes of the electorate
Registered adults and girls (14 years and older) who are elected by each Community as representatives to vote on corporate matters of the Council The number of Delegates is usually determined by girl membership in that Community
If you are delegated to do something, you are given the duty of acting on someone else's behalf by making decisions, voting, or doing some particular work. Officials have now been delegated to start work on a draft settlement. = appoint. someone who has been elected or chosen to speak, vote, or take decisions for a group representative (delegatus, from legare )
A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting. = representative
(noun) a representative who speaks for a group of people at a meeting or lawmaking assembly (verb) To give someone authority or responsibility to carry out a task
a scientist from a Member Country who is registered for an IAGA Assembly as a bona-fide scientific participant, or someone who has the agreement of the Secretary-General in consultation with the IAGA Executive Committee to attend and vote as a Delegate at a Conference of Delegates
One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution
—A mechanism used to implement event handling in NET Framework code A class that needs to raise events must define one delegate per event Types that use the class must implement one event handler method per event that must be processed Delegates are often described as a managed version of a C++ function pointer However, delegates can reference both instance and static (also called shared) methods, while function pointers can only reference static methods
A nonvoting representative of one of the territories or of a district organized by law who receives the compensation, allowances, and benefits of a Member of the House and is entitled to the privileges and immunities of Members Delegates have a right to vote in committee and otherwise participate in House floor activities The citizens of Puerto Rico are represented by a Resident Commissioner who has the same rights as a Delegate At the organization of the House during the opening of the first session, Delegates and the Resident Commissioner are sworn but the Clerk of the House does not put them on the roll for voting
A delegate is one who is sent to represent a group of people A delegate to a Presidential nominating convention represents his or her state, voting on behalf of that state
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An official representative selected by members of his or her party to a national or state political convention (see above) For more detail, see documents on The Nominating Process
commission another to perform tasks or duties that may carry specific degrees of accountability Ideally authority should be passed to the lowest level within the organization capable of making an effective decision
A representative to a nominating convention, especially a national party convention; Also, Delegate, a member of the lower house of the legislature in Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia; Also, Delegate, a nonvoting Member of Congress, representing the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, or the Virgin Islands of the United States (The nonvoting Member of Congress from Puerto Rico is called the Resident Commissioner )
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Representative of a Rotary club at the international convention Each club is entitled to send one delegate for each 50 of its members, or major fraction thereof, honorary members excepted
If you delegate duties, responsibilities, or power to someone, you give them those duties, those responsibilities, or that power so that they can act on your behalf. He plans to delegate more authority to his deputies Many employers find it hard to delegate. + delegation del·ega·tion A key factor in running a business is the delegation of responsibility
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[ 'de-li-g&t, -"gAt ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English delegat, from Medieval Latin delegatus, from Latin, past participle of delegare to delegate, from de- + legare to send; more at LEGATE.