Designee vs Delegate - What's the difference?
designee | delegate |
(legal) One who has been designated
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, passage=The bill authorizes the President's designee , to access funds that the Congress has already appropriated for the auto industries.}}
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
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
As nouns the difference between designee and delegate
is that designee is one who has been designated 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.designee
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