Plenipotentiary vs Delegate - What's the difference?
plenipotentiary | delegate |
A person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter
Invested with full power.
Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent
a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
a representative at a conference, etc.
(US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
(computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
to authorize someone to be a delegate
to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
(computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours
As nouns the difference between plenipotentiary and delegate
is that plenipotentiary is a person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter while delegate is a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.As an adjective plenipotentiary
is invested with full power.As a verb delegate is
to authorize someone to be a delegate.plenipotentiary
English
(wikipedia plenipotentiary)Noun
(plenipotentiaries)- 1985': Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah '''plenipotentiary . — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked