To give something to (a person), or assign a task to (a person).
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Examples for "delegate "
Examples for "delegate "
1 This year we will continue to streamline administration and delegate government powers.
2 Now I will vote yes, said one delegate after hearing Gabriel's speech.
3 They surrender rather than delegate responsibility to others It's always your money.
4 At times five different sessions are vying for the distracted delegate 's attention.
5 Marshall Islands delegate Emma Kabua Tibon said more needed to be done.
1 The latter are used to assign different pseudocolors to specific chromosomal regions.
2 This has allowed the state to assign resources to upgrade farming infrastructure.
3 A sealed envelope was used to assign patients to each intervention group.
4 We will now assign the berths in the steerage to the crew.
5 Segmentation results from successive frames are used to assign correspondences among MTs.
1 Each abelan is different and is used to designate a particular individual.
2 We start this week with good wishes for First Minister - designate Peter Robinson.
3 It is not known whether she attended a principal designate assessment centre.
4 You can designate the organizations to receive the money at any point.
5 Can a donor designate their body for research on a specific disease?
1 The Sheriff - depute of the county arrived at Ellangowan next morning by daybreak.
2 He worked as both a procurator fiscal depute and a hotel manager.
3 Always depute that part of your work which somebody else can do.'
4 In 1822 he became one of the four advocates - depute for Scotland.
5 I feared the disagreeableness of the duty might make you depute your under-sheriff.
6 I have no one to whom I can depute any of the arrangements.
7 Tell her I depute you to kiss my son for me.
8 I'm sorry; but you'll have to depute me to present it.
9 At length it was unanimously agreed to depute Anton Prokofievitch to do this business.
10 Better still if you would depute me to do it.
11 However, I shall depute Mr. Shafto to look after you.
12 And when she began to depute certain matters in the household management to Barefoot, she said:
13 Let us depute D'Artois to do it.
14 No one has or could depute me.
15 I shall depute the task to a worthy fellow named Willis, in whom I shall have every confidence.
16 They depute it to certain officials.
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