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delegate

verb as in assign responsibility

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“Welcome, welcome to Brooklyn,” the senator sang as each delegate descended from the bus.

The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll.

Shaw put himself right alongside the line and took a minute to shake hands and greet each delegate.

Under the Soviet regime, people preferred to delegate power and decision-making to others—Stalin, for example.

Virginia State Delegate Barbara Comstock is the ur-Republican.

One delegate said that he found fully one third of the men in his wards professing Christians.

A delegate of the Christian Commission sat down to write a letter for him to his wife, to be sent by a flag of truce.

The Tallest Delegate was called smartly to order; he rebelled, but when threatened with the sergeant-at-arms subsided amid jeers.

The delegate from Marion, like the mysterious person from Pulaski, was a stranger to state conventions.

The next morning the ejected delegate sailed for London, but soon went to Paris where he helped to form radical groups.

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On this page you'll find 1535 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to delegate, such as: appointee, assignment, nominee, office, post, and berth.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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