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Delegacy
The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.
Office
The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
Surrogate
A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
Remit
To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
Vicariate
Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.
Trusteeship
The office or duty of a trustee.
Errand
A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to ..
License
Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such ..
Regency
The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
Confide
To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
Commissioner
A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to ..
Delegation
The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
Consignment
The act of consigning; consignation.
Mandate
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
Commend
To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.
Depute
To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
Accredit
To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
Enable
To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
Remit
To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
Authorization
The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.
Charter
A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
Vicegerent
Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.
Substitute
One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else
Mouthpiece
The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.
Empower
To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the att..
Transfer
To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.
Trust
To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
Detach
To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.
Puppet
A small image in the human form; a doll.
Amanuensis
A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Fed
imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Official
Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
Nuncio
A messenger.
Resumption
The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.
Minister
A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
Legate
An ambassador or envoy.
Envoy
One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or govern..
Diplomat
Alt. of Diplomate
Consul
One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.
Plenipotentiary
A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.
Attache
One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
Chancellor
A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
Herald
An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviol..
Legitimacy
The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
Legation
The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another.
Messenger
One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears mes..
Spokesman
One who speaks for another.
Proxy
The agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.
Commissary
One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
Designate
Designated; appointed; chosen.
Emissary
An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter...
Delegate
Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
Clerk
A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
Appoint
To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
Authorized
of Authorize
Agent
Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
Faculty
Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity;..
Prerogative
An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior and indefeasible right; fundamental and essential possession; -- used generally of an official and hereditary right which may be asserted without que..
Trust
Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
Power
Same as Poor, the fish.
Absolutism
The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
Tool
An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implem..
Dupe
One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer.
Deputy
One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the dep..
Ambassador
Alt. of Embassador
Representative
Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
Deputation
The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
Agency
The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
Brevet
A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].
Purview
The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.
Office
That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pi..
Commitment
The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
Competence
Alt. of Competency
Mission
The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
Relegate
To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.
Commission
The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
Make
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
Devolve
To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
Task
Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
Right
Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
Consign
To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of ..
Cure
Care, heed, or attention.
Consignee
The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor.
Implement
That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.
Steward
A man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.
Cast
of Cast
Entrust
See Intrust.
Remand
To recommit; to send back.
Deputize
To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
Authority
Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over..
Say
Saw.
Care
A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Detail
A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
Instrument
That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
Name
The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.
Responsibility
The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
Charge
To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
Assign
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
Warrant
That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something ..
Commit
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
Authorize
To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
Assignment
An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
Send
To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
Post
Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
Factor
One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or ..
Embassy
The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.
Farm
The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
Caucus
A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding ..
Jurisdiction
The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certa..
