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someone trusted to carry your voice into a room you'll never enter.
means To hand off a task or authority to someone else — or the person sent to act and speak on your behalf.
from From Latin delegare, 'to send away on a commission,' built from de- ('off, away') plus legare ('to send as an envoy, to depute'). That legare is the same root behind 'legate' and 'legacy' — all bound up with the act of formally entrusting one person to stand in for another. English took it up through the medieval Latin of courts and councils, where a delegatus was literally one dispatched to carry a charge elsewhere.
- latin root
- from delegare, to send away with authority
- electoral college
- delegates, not voters, technically pick presidents
- superdelegate
- party insiders who vote however they please
- programming twist
- in code, delegates pass tasks to other functions
- leadership math
- those who delegate badly do everyone's job poorly
for instance
world health assembly — 194 who member state delegates convene annually in geneva to set health policies