DELEGATED Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

delegated

verb

past tense of delegate

as in appointed

to appoint as one's representative he delegated his son to go pick up the tickets for him

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as in handed

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another a manager who is reluctant to delegate authority to subordinates

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Recent Examples of delegated Levine said that arrangement appeared inconsistent with Board of Governors regulations which establish that trustees must act collectively and limit the authority that can be delegated to individual board members. —

Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 18 June 2026 In an industry where most steps are routinely delegated to technicians, MedArt’s approach is structurally different — and the consistency of its verified Trustpilot and Google reviews reflects that difference. —

Ascend Agency, Daily News, 17 June 2026 What happens when every difficult task can be delegated to a machine? —

Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 The distinction is in determining which slice of the work is irreplaceable and the main purview of humans, and which slices can be delegated to AI. —

Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 12 June 2026 The trade court ruled 2-1 that Trump overstepped the tariff power that Congress had delegated to the president under the law. —

ABC News, 11 June 2026 Presidential tariff authority exists only through powers delegated by Congress, but those delegations were never intended to permit unilateral executive restructuring of the entire global trading system. —

Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 Officer Haley Buck located the remaining squirrels behind a toilet in the apartment’s bathroom and delegated Poarch to capture them using the basket, the footage shows. —

Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2025 Other issues on the road toward peace in Ukraine have been delegated to working groups, creating a likelihood that efforts at brokering a full ceasefire could become bogged down for months. —

Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 20 Mar. 2025

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The board appointed veteran district administrator Andres Chait as acting superintendent.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
Jay Collins, a former state senator from Tampa appointed by DeSantis as lieutenant governor last summer, comes closest to meeting the financial criteria with just over $10 million, according to the most recent campaign records, but trails in the polls at around 5%.

— Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2026