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Magistrate vs Delegate - What's the difference?

magistrate | delegate |

As nouns the difference between magistrate and delegate

is that magistrate is 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.

magistrate

English

(wikipedia magistrate)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
  • (Quebec) A master's degree

    • Synonyms

    (sense, master's degree) * master's degree * master's * master * mistress (qualifier)

    Anagrams

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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