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Committee vs Delegate - What's the difference?

committee | delegate |

As nouns the difference between committee and delegate

is that committee is a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols 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.

committee

English

Alternative forms

* (contraction)

Noun

(wikipedia committee) (en noun)
  • a group of persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols
  • (archaic) a guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.

    • Derived terms

    * committeeman * committeeperson * committeewoman * subcommittee

    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