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legate
An official representative, such as an ambassador.
🌱All the important European powers sent legates of some kind to the peace conference. 🌳Legate is a somewhat old-fashioned word, less used today than it was a century ago. More common is the synonym envoy. In the days before electronic communications, a legate often had particularly large responsibilities, since he couldn't check with his government to be sure he was doing the right thing. The Vatican still sends papal legates to represent the pope's point of view in negotiations. legacy 1、 Something left to a person in a will.
2、 Something handed down by an ancestor or predecessor or received from the past.
🌱The Stradivarius family of violin makers left a priceless legacy of remarkable instruments. 🌳In its basic meaning, a legacy is a gift of money or other personal property that's granted by the terms of a will—often a substantial gift that needs to be properly managed. But the word is used much more broadly as well. So, for instance, much of Western civilization—law, philosophy, aesthetics— could be called the undying legacy of ancient Greece. And the rights and opportunities that women enjoy today are partly the legacy of the early suffragists and feminists. delegation A group of people chosen to represent the interests or opinions of others.
🌱Each American colony sent a delegation to the Second Continental Congress, and in its second year all 56 delegates approved Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. 🌳The task of a delegation—each member of which can be called a delegate—is to represent a larger group, often at a conference. Thus, a delegation of nondoctors to a medical convention may want to make sure the rights and needs of patients aren't ignored, just as a delegation of laypeople may attend a religious conference to express the concerns of other laypeople. relegate 1、 To remove or assign to a less important place.
2、 To refer or hand over for decision or for carrying out.
🌱First-year students were relegated to the back of the line so that all the upper classes could eat first. 🌳Originally relegate meant "to send into exile, banish." So when you relegate an old sofa to the basement, you're sending it to home-decorating Siberia. When confronted with a matter that no one really wants to face, a chief executive may relegate it to a committee "for further study," which may manage to ignore it for years. It may be annoying to read a newspaper article about a pet project and find that your own contributions have been relegated to a short sentence near the end.
🌱All the important European powers sent legates of some kind to the peace conference. 🌳Legate is a somewhat old-fashioned word, less used today than it was a century ago. More common is the synonym envoy. In the days before electronic communications, a legate often had particularly large responsibilities, since he couldn't check with his government to be sure he was doing the right thing. The Vatican still sends papal legates to represent the pope's point of view in negotiations. legacy 1、 Something left to a person in a will.
2、 Something handed down by an ancestor or predecessor or received from the past.
🌱The Stradivarius family of violin makers left a priceless legacy of remarkable instruments. 🌳In its basic meaning, a legacy is a gift of money or other personal property that's granted by the terms of a will—often a substantial gift that needs to be properly managed. But the word is used much more broadly as well. So, for instance, much of Western civilization—law, philosophy, aesthetics— could be called the undying legacy of ancient Greece. And the rights and opportunities that women enjoy today are partly the legacy of the early suffragists and feminists. delegation A group of people chosen to represent the interests or opinions of others.
🌱Each American colony sent a delegation to the Second Continental Congress, and in its second year all 56 delegates approved Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. 🌳The task of a delegation—each member of which can be called a delegate—is to represent a larger group, often at a conference. Thus, a delegation of nondoctors to a medical convention may want to make sure the rights and needs of patients aren't ignored, just as a delegation of laypeople may attend a religious conference to express the concerns of other laypeople. relegate 1、 To remove or assign to a less important place.
2、 To refer or hand over for decision or for carrying out.
🌱First-year students were relegated to the back of the line so that all the upper classes could eat first. 🌳Originally relegate meant "to send into exile, banish." So when you relegate an old sofa to the basement, you're sending it to home-decorating Siberia. When confronted with a matter that no one really wants to face, a chief executive may relegate it to a committee "for further study," which may manage to ignore it for years. It may be annoying to read a newspaper article about a pet project and find that your own contributions have been relegated to a short sentence near the end.
LEGA comes from the Latin legare, meaning "to appoint" or "to send as a deputy." The same root actually shows up in such words as legal—but how the law connects with sending deputies can get awfully complicated and probably isn't worth going into.🌸