delegate

Plural: delegates

Noun

a person appointed or elected to represent others
A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
A representative at a conference, etc.
An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.

Verb

Verb Forms: delegated, delegating, delegates

To appoint someone to act as a representative or assign a task.
transfer power to someone
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
(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.

Adj

delegated
Acting as a delegate, delegated; of, pertaining to a delegate

Examples

She decided to DELEGATE the task of finding high-scoring words to her Words With Friends partner.
The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.

Synonyms

assign, depute, designate

Scrabble Score: 10

delegate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
delegate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
delegate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

delegate: valid Words With Friends Word