单词 | delegator |
释义 | delegatorn. 1. A person or group assigning authority, power, responsibilities, etc., to another person or group. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > [noun] > one who gives a commission > one who delegates delegator1602 delegant1613 1602 J. Colleton Iust Def. Slandered Priestes 111 Their graces were delegatine [read delegatiue] iudge, in the cause, and his Holinesse the Delegator. 1706 G. Mackenzie Friendly Return to Let. 9 Then I say, That the King and Council, were neither the Supreme nor Sovereign Power; but that, it did still reside, and remain, in and with their..Delegators; i.e. In and with the whole People. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 255/2 Not only supreme authorities, as Popes, emperors, and republics, but..all ordinary judges can delegate their jurisdiction to another. The delegator is in such case responsible for all judgments given by his delegate. 1986 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 23 Nov. He is a good delegator of authority. He's obviously given me a lot of trust and I believe I've earned it. 2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 June b16/1 A delegator by inclination, Mr. Doubleday kept in the background... ‘You get good people to do a job and then you don't spend too much time looking over their shoulders.’ 2. Law. A person who delegates (delegate v. 4) his or her debtor to a creditor in order to discharge a different debt. Now historical and rare.Cf. delegant n. 2, delegatee n. 2. ΚΠ 1751 A. McDouall Inst. Laws Scotl. I. i. viii. 217 Where one pays another person's debt, by delegation, believing that he was debtor to the delegator, as to which he afterwards finds he was in a mistake, the creditor who received payment is not concerned. 1839 L. S. Cushing tr. R. J. Pothier Treat. Contract of Sale vi. iv. 335 By this kind of delegation, the debt, which the delegator owes to him, to whom he makes the delegation, and that which the debtor delegated owes to the delegator, are entirely extinguished; and, in the place of them, a new debt..is contracted. 1907 G. M. Swift & H. C. Payne tr. J. Voet Comment. on Pandects on Suretyship, Novation & Payment 117 To delegate is to give one's creditor a new debtor in place of oneself, and a delegator is deemed to have discharged his obligation. 2011 B. Geva Payment Order Antiq. & Middle Ages v. 243 It is performance by payment to the ultimate delegatee that discharges Paymaster and each delegator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602 |
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