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subdelegated

subdelegated is the simple past and past participle of subdelegate.

Meaning of subdelegate

Verb

subdelegate (third-person singular simple present subdelegates, present participle subdelegating, simple past and past participle subdelegated)

  1. (transitive) To delegate (a task already delegated to oneself) to somebody else.
    • To subdelegate a determinate priest to assist at a specified marriage of those subjects of the Military Vicar who have been placed under your personal charge, excluding entirely, however, the power of again subdelegating.1942, The American Ecclesiastical Review: Volume 107
  2. (transitive) To appoint as a subdelegate or subordinate.

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Questions about subdelegated

What is subdelegated the simple past and past participle of?
Subdelegated is the simple past and past participle of subdelegate.

Words near subdelegated in the dictionary

  1. subdeflected
  2. subdegree
  3. subdeities
  4. subdeity
  5. subdelegate
  6. subdelegated
  7. subdelegates
  8. subdelegating
  9. subdelegation
  10. subdelegations
  11. subdeletion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subdelegated (page history and authors); subdelegate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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