Delegate meaning : A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy A representative at a conference, etc. An appointed representative in some legislative bodies A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer To authorize someone to be a delegate To commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate (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