to delegate
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3.7
- verb
- /ˈdɛlɪɡeɪt/
:
delegar (en alguien)
- To improve efficiency, managers should delegate tasks to their staff members.
- delegate authority
- delegate powers
- delegate responsibility
You're, you're, you're trying to delegate any kind of power to someone else.
- You're, you're, you're trying to delegate any kind of power to someone else.
- Start delegating your daily tasks to technology.
- Because if you are not ready to delegate, you are not ready to start a team, right?
- And that was the point where I said it's time to delegate.
- But even with that, I thought about how could I delegate the channel and like have Co stars?
- And you have to just sort of delegate.
- Everything else can be outsourced or delegated.
- Isn't that crazy how for some reason we do not allow ourselves to delegate things?
- That is going to make you way more cash flow and just figure out how to delegate your business to where you are not involved.
- So we, we are delegating more and more decision processes to algorithms.
Examples
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I struggled to delegate and build a team around me.
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Because of socialization, women expect to assume caregiving responsibilities, and men expect to delegate those responsibilities.
Academic text (1990) -
Because if you are not ready to delegate, you are not ready to start a team, right?
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That is going to make you way more cash flow and just figure out how to delegate your business to where you are not involved.
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Do only those things that only you can do, and delegate everything else.
Fiction book (2002) -
Those are tasks you of course just delegate to other people.
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Delegate more to your teams.
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I delegate to you the authority to run this household... and turn over to you the keys to your life.
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As the demands upon all of us grew, we delegated more and more of that.
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Start delegating your daily tasks to technology.
Synonyms
487
2.7
Give someone a specific task, duty, or position of responsibility
57
2.6
To give someone a piece of work they must do
1
3.5
To give responsibility or control to another person during a planned change
1
7.8
To choose someone to act for you
To give some of your tasks or power to another person
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A person the Pope sends to represent the Vatican in a country with no official relations
- Jargon
A union representative who visits workplaces to check that agreements with employers are kept
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
To delegate as a verb comes from Latin de- and legare, meaning 'away' and 'to send', so it originally meant to 'send someone to do a job'. That's why today to delegate is to give a task or responsibility to someone else.