Usually means: Representatives appointed for specific tasks.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. delegates: Merriam-Webster
  2. delegates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. delegates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Delegate's, Delegates, delegate's, delegates: Wordnik
  5. delegates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. delegates: Wiktionary
  7. delegates: Dictionary.com
  8. delegates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Delegates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. delegates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. delegates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. delegates: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delegates: Encyclopedia

(Note: See delegate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (delegate)

noun:  A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
noun:  A representative at a conference, etc.
noun:  (US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
noun:  (computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
noun:  A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
verb:  (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
verb:  (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
verb:  (computing, Internet, transitive) (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.
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