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Attendee vs Delegate - What's the difference?

attendee | delegate |

As nouns the difference between delegate and attendee

is that delegate is a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy while attendee is a person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.

As a verb delegate

is to authorize someone to be a delegate.

attendee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
  • *2000 , Russian Government,
  • *:During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.
  • A visitor or participant of an event.
  • *2002 , Sam Williams,
  • *:O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee .
  • (uncommon) A person who is attended.

    • Synonyms

    * (person in attendance) attender, audience (member) * (participant in an event) audience (member), participant

    Related terms

    * attendant

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    delegate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
  • a representative at a conference, etc.
  • (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
  • (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (delegat)
  • to authorize someone to be a delegate
  • to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
  • (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours