delegate

Etymology

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.

noun

1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
2. A representative at a conference, etc.
3. (US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
4. (computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
   Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates. 2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi
5. A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.

verb

1. (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
   New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was perceived to delegate effectively. Wayne Mapp, a minister under Key observed he had 'a different style than the traditional style of New Zealand political management. He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014). 2020, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Management: The Dance of Government and Politics
2. (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
   The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data. 20 July 2020, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian
3. (computing, Internet, transitive) (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.