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 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 The core mechanism of the Constitution is the way that the United States government is funded through taxes voted by Congress, through spending voted by Congress, and through financial power delegated by Congress to the president. —

David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026 City officials delegated Independence police officers to monitor the data center’s groundbreaking and cleared the way for a local power plant to reopen at nine times its former capacity, fueled by natural gas and intended to directly serve the data center. —

Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 20 May 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 interception of the Smyrtos occurred just days after the PM appointed a new Defense Secretary, Dan Jarvis, following the resignation of John Healey from Starmer’s fragile government in a dispute over military budgets.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
Eskin favors changing the system for choosing judges to one in which jurists are appointed to a single 15-year term, eliminating the need for elections while also ensuring that jurists do eventually leave the bench to make way for others.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 14 June 2026