member of congress (noun) delegate: representative, often governmental
Detalii: as a noun, delegate is a person appointed or elected to represent others - as a verb delegate means to transfer power or authority to someone; relegate means to refer to another person for decision or judgment or assign to a lower position or reduce in ranka delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group
Sinonime: acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, hard-fisted, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise, penurious,
petty, pinchpenny,
rapacious,
saving, scrimping, scurvy,
selfish, skimping,
sordid, sparing,
thrifty, tight*, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving