Definitions
1.nounA person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
2.nounA representative at a conference, etc.
3.nounAn appointed representative in some legislative bodies
4.nounA type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
5.verbTo authorize someone to be a delegate
6.verbTo commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
7.verb(of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own