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Designee vs Delegate - What's the difference?

designee | delegate |

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

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) One who has been designated
  • *{{quote-news, 2008, December 11, , Automakers to remain under pressure for months yet, Birmingham Star citation
  • , passage=The bill authorizes the President's designee , to access funds that the Congress has already appropriated for the auto industries.}}

    Coordinate terms

    *designator

    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