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Commissioner vs Delegate - What's the difference?

commissioner | delegate |

As nouns the difference between commissioner and delegate

is that commissioner is a member of a commission while delegate is a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

As a verb delegate is

to authorize someone to be a delegate.

commissioner

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of a commission.
  • Someone commissioned to perform certain duties.
  • An official in charge of a government department, especially a police force.
  • Someone who commissions something
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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
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    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