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noun
- 1. a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference: "the delegates rejected the proposal"
verb
- 1. entrust (a task or responsibility) to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself: "she must delegate duties so as to free herself for more important tasks" Similar
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18 hours ago · Éamon de Valera speaks on an ideal Ireland. Recorded 17 March 1943. Éamon de Valera[a][b] (/ ˈeɪmən ˌdɛvəˈlɛərə, - ˈlɪər -/, Irish: [ˈeːmˠən̪ˠ dʲɛ ˈwalʲəɾʲə]; first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; [2] 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was an American-born Irish ...
18 hours ago · Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. [1][2] Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy Roman ...
18 hours ago · Ahmadiyya, [a] officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ) [4] [b] is an Islamic messianic [5] [6] movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. [7] [8] [9] It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; [10] as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected ...
18 hours ago · Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting [3] (formally Boy Scouts).
18 hours ago · Acupuncture[b] is a form of alternative medicine [2] and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body. [3] Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; [4][5] the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge, [6] and it has been characterized as quackery.
18 hours ago · IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems. It was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924 and soon became the leading manufacturer of punch-card tabulating systems.
