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Correspondent vs Delegate - What's the difference?

correspondent | delegate |

As nouns the difference between correspondent and delegate

is that correspondent is someone who or something which corresponds while delegate is a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

As an adjective correspondent

is corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.

As a verb delegate is

to authorize someone to be a delegate.

correspondent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
  • * Hooker
  • Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
  • (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
  • : Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who or something which corresponds.
  • A journalist who sends reports to his newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.
  • Derived terms

    * correspondential * correspondently * correspondentship * foreign correspondent

    Hyponyms

    * stringer

    See also

    * corespondent * in Wikipedia

    References

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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