delegate

  1. Noun.  a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
  2. Noun.  a representative at a conference, etc.
  3. Noun.  (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
  4. Noun.  (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
  5. Verb.  to authorize someone to be a delegate.
  6. Verb.  to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate.
  7. Verb.  (computing) (internet) (italbrac, of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours.

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