- a person who is chosen or elected to represent the views of a group of people and vote and make decisions for them
- Congress delegates rejected the proposals.
Extra ExamplesTopics Preferences and decisionsc1- The delegates voted to support the resolution.
- a delegate from the local Labour party
- the British delegate to the United Nations
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- conference
- congress
- convention
- …
- choose
- elect
- select
- …
- attend (something)
- approve
- vote (on something)
- …
- delegate from
- delegate to
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- a person who attends a conference
- The conference was attended by delegates from 56 countries.
- They decided not to send a delegate to the conference.
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin delegatus ‘sent on a commission’, from the verb delegare, from de- ‘down’ + legare ‘depute’.
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