delegate
A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
Other meanings
A representative at a conference, etc.
A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "dēlēgātus".
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This definition is adapted from “delegate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.