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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agent |
| Synonyms: | administrator, government official, magistrate |
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| Main Entry: | delegate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | representative, often governmental |
| Synonyms: | agent, alternate, ambassador, appointee, catchpole, commissioner, consul, deputy, emissary, envoy, factor, front*, legate, member, member of congress, minister, mouthpiece, nominee, people's choice, pinch hitter, plenipotentiary, proxy, regent, rep, replacement, senator, spokesperson, stand-in, substitute, surrogate, vicar, viceroy |
| Notes: | as a noun, delegate is a person appointed or elected to represent others - as a verb delegate means to transfer power or authority to someone; relegate means to refer to another person for decision or judgment or assign to a lower position or reduce in rank a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deputy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistant, agent |
| Synonyms: | aide, ambassador, appointee, assembly member, backup, commissioner, councilor, delegate, dogcatcher, factor, legate, lieutenant, minister, proxy, regent, replacement, representant, representative, second-in-command, sub, subordinate, substitute, surrogate |
| Antonyms: | chief, manager |
| Main Entry: | official |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person representing organization |
| Synonyms: | CEO, administrator, agent, big shot, boss, brains, brass, bureaucrat, chancellor, civil servant, commissioner, comptroller, dignitary, director, exec, executive, front office, functionary, governor, head person, higher-up, incumbent, leader, magistrate, manager, marshal, mayor, minister, officeholder, officer, panjandrum, premier, president, representative, secretary, top brass, top dog, top drawer, top*, treasurer |
| Notes: | an official (noun) is one who holds or is invested with an office or a referee or umpire in a game or sport - (adjective) having official authority or of or relating to an office; officious means marked by excessive eagerness in offering services or advice where they are neither requested nor needed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | representative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who acts in the stead of another |
| Synonyms: | agent, assemblyperson, attorney, commissioner, congressperson, councilor, councilperson, counselor, delegate, deputy, lawyer, legislator, member, messenger, proxy, rep, salesperson, senator, spokesperson |
| Main Entry: | commission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group working together toward goal |
| Synonyms: | board, commissioners, committee, delegation, deputation, representative |
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| Concept: | Agent. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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-nouns
doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager., bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum., workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout., maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright., machinist, mechanician, engineer., sempstress, semstress, seamstress; needlewoman, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer., minister (instrument); servant; representative (commissioner), (deputy) [more]., coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae; personnel.
-phrases
quorum pars magna fui [Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae suae.
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| Concept: | Deputy. |
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-nouns
deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, badli, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary., regent, viceregent, vizier, minister, vicar; premier (director); chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul, proconsul; viceroy (governor); commissioner; Tsung-li Yamen, Wai Wu Pu; plenipotentiary, alter ego., team, eight, eleven; champion.
-verbs
be deputy; stand for, appear for, hold a brief for, answer for; represent; stand in the shoes of, walk in the shoes of; stand in the stead of., ablegate, accredit.
-adjectives
acting, vice, vice regal; accredited to.
-adverbs
in behalf of.
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| Concept: | [Vicarious authority.] Commission. |
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-nouns
commission, delegation; consignment, assignment; procuration; deputation, legation, mission, embassy; agency, agentship; power of attorney; clerkship., errand, charge, brevet, diploma, exequatur, permit (permission) [more]., appointment, nomination, return; charter; ordination; installation, inauguration, investiture; accession, coronation, enthronement., vicegerency; regency, regentship., viceroy; consignee; deputy.
-verbs
commission, delegate, depute; consign, assign; charge; intrust, entrust; commit, commit to the hands of; authorize (permit)., put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain; install, induct, inaugurate, invest, crown; enroll, enlist; give power of attorney to., employ, empower; set over, place over; send out., be commissioned, be accredited; represent, stand for; stand in the stead of, stand in the place of, stand in the shoes of.
-adjectives
commissioned.
-adverbs
per procurationem.
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