Definitions
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- noun US A
delegate .
Etymologies
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delegate + -ee
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Examples
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The mayor, Dunn said, was a mere statutory "delegee" of the council.
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But certainly, as a federally-approved national historic preservation program delegee, the City has the duty to make the eligibility determination up-front.
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Without the parenthetical phrase, the president still could not delegate the power to handpick acting officers -- or more precisely, if he let a delegee choose the acting officer, the president would still have to formalize the pick by signing off on it himself.
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