Delegate vs Negotiate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between delegate and negotiate

is that delegate is to authorize someone to be a delegate while negotiate is to confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.

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

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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

negotiate

English

(Negotiation)

Verb

(negotiat)

To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.

* 1963 , , to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait

"You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."

To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.

To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 29, author=Kevin Mitchell, work=the Guardian

, title= Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau , passage=Novak Djokovic earlier had negotiated his own tricky passage through the fifth day.}}

(obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.

(Hammond)

(obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.

(Francis Bacon)

Derived terms

* negotiable * negotiation * negotiator * negotiatory

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