Synonyms of the word

delegate

• n. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
• n. a representative at a conference, etc.
• n. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
• n. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous…
• v. to authorize someone to be a delegate.
• v. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate.
• v. (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else…

appoint

• v. (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting…
• v. (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings…
• v. (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
• v. (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

assign

• v. (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
• v. (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
• v. (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
• v. (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
• v. (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
• n. An assignee.
• n. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

delegate

• n. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
• n. a representative at a conference, etc.
• n. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
• n. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous…
• v. to authorize someone to be a delegate.
• v. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate.
• v. (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else…

depute

• v. (obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
• v. To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
• v. To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
• v. To appoint; to assign; to choose.
• n. (Scotland) Deputy.

designate

• adj. Designated; appointed; chosen.
• v. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description;…
• v. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
• v. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the…

representative

• adj. Typical; having the same properties or interest as a larger group.
• n. One who may speak for another in a particular capacity, especially in negotiation.
• n. A member of a legislative or governing body who represents a constituency.
• n. One that is taken as typical of its class.
• n. (US, politics) A member of the US House of Representatives.
• n. Company agent who visits potential purchasers, salesman.