A more thorough explanation:

Definition: Delegate means giving someone else the responsibility to do something that was agreed upon in a contract. There are three parties involved in this: the person who made the contract and needs something done (called the delegator), the person who is responsible for doing it (called the delegate), and the person who will benefit from it being done (called the obligee). If the delegate doesn't do what they were supposed to do, the obligee can either say that the contract was broken or ask for compensation for any harm they suffered because of it.

For example, if you hire a company to build a house for you, but they can't do it themselves, they might delegate some of the work to other companies. In this case, the original company is the delegator, the other companies are the delegates, and you are the obligee. If the other companies don't do their work properly, you can say that the contract was broken and ask for compensation.

In constitutional law, delegate means to transfer some of the power of one branch of government to another agency. This is called delegation. For example, if Congress decides that a certain agency should be in charge of regulating a certain industry, they are delegating some of their power to that agency.

In some states, trustees (people who are in charge of managing something for someone else) have to be careful when they delegate tasks to other people. They have to make sure that the people they delegate to are qualified and that they are doing their job properly. This is to make sure that the person who the trustee is working for (called the beneficiary) is not harmed by the delegate's actions.