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Plural of delegate

regular plural

The plural of delegate is delegates.

Forms of delegate

Singulardelegate /ˈdɛlɪɡət/
Pluraldelegates
Countablecountable

Delegates in a sentence

  • The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.
  • He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014).2020, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Management: The Dance of Government and Politics
  • The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.From the entry membership
  • Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.From the entry seat
  • The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.From the entry dazzle

Meaning of delegate

  1. noun A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
  2. noun A representative at a conference, etc.
  3. noun An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.

Full definition of delegate

Questions about the plural of delegate

What is the plural of delegate?
The plural of delegate is delegates.
Is delegate countable?
Delegate is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delegate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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