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Delegate vs Decentralize - What's the difference?

delegate | decentralize |

As verbs the difference between delegate and decentralize

is that delegate is to authorize someone to be a delegate while decentralize is to cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.

As a noun delegate

is a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

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

    • decentralize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * decentralise (UK)

    Verb

    (decentraliz)
  • To cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
  • To reduce the authority of a governing body by distributing that authority among several bodies.