Mandated vs Delegated - What's the difference?
mandated | delegated |
required, mandatory
(mandate)
(delegate)
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 verbs the difference between mandated and delegated
is that mandated is (mandate) while delegated is (delegate).As an adjective mandated
is required, mandatory.mandated
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)- The precautions were mandated by a judge.
