Delegate

A delegate is an individual (or a member of a group called a delegation) who represents the interests of a larger organization (e.g. a government, a charity, an NGO, or a trade union) at a meeting of some kind (e.g. trade talks, an environmental summit, aid negotiations, or an industrial dispute).

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In order to avoid the principal-agent problem, it is generally important to the organization to take steps to ensure that the delegate or delegation does not have a conflict of interest. Failure to do so may reduce the chances of the organization's viewpoint being represented as well as possible.

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Delegates from the major political parties are involved in the selection of candidates for President of the United States. Some of the officials involved in the process are called superdelegates.

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Delegate is also a title given to individuals elected to the lower legislative bodies of the states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia (see House of Delegates).

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Delegate is also the title of a person elected to the United States House of Representatives to serve the interests of a organized United States territory. Delegates have powers similar to that of Representatives, including the right to vote in committee, but have no right to take part in floor votes. See: Delegate (United States Congress).

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Delegate is also a Computer Science term used by various Object Oriented Programming Languages. Delegate functionality allows you to pass methods of one class to objects of other classes that can call those methods. See Delegation (programming).

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Government: A government is the body that has the power to make and enforce laws within an organization or group. In its broadest sense, "govern" means the power to administrate, whether over an area of land, a set group of people, or a collection of assets. The word government is derived the Greek Κυ...

Charity: Charity is a term in Christian theology (one of the three theological virtues), meaning loving kindness towards others; it is held to be the ultimate perfection of the human spirit, because it is said to both glorify and reflect the nature of God. In its most extreme form charity can be self-sacrifi...

NGO: NGO is an abbreviation or code for:...

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Greetings to Delegate Returning from a People's Conference