different between committee vs delegation

English

Alternative forms

• cttee (contraction)
• cmte (contraction)

Etymology

From commit +? -ee, else revival of Anglo-Norman commite, past participle of commettre (“to commit”), from Latin committere, from con- (“with”) + mittere (“to send”). The OED3 prefers the first etymology.

Pronunciation

group of persons

• enPR: k?-m?t??, IPA^(key): [k??m?t.i]
• Rhymes: -?ti

person in charge of another

• (UK) IPA^(key): [k?m??ti?]
• Rhymes: -i?
• (US) enPR: käm-?-t??, IPA^(key): [k?m??ti?]
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

committee (plural committees)

1. A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
2. (archaic) A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after himself or herself.

Hyponyms

• program committee

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: comité (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Further reading

• committee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?l?g?ti?, d?l?g?ti?nis, from d?l?g?: confer French délégation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?l???e???n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

delegation (countable and uncountable, plural delegations)

1. An act of delegating.
2. A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.
3. (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

   Hyponyms: multicast delegation, singlecast delegation

4. (law) The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity, irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)

Related terms

• delegate

Translations

See also

• consultation link

Further reading

• Restament, Second, of Contracts §§ 318–328
• UCC 2-210

Anagrams

• degelation, eloignated

Swedish

Etymology

delegera +? -ation

Noun

delegation c

1. a delegation

Declension