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As in the English dictionary, a delegate is "a person designated to represent or act for another"

Delegation is when one object (delegator) passes a helper object (delegate) to another object (delegatee?). A certain delegate to be delegated is passed between a delegator and a delegatee. Delegation is an alternative to inheritance.

#External Links

* [Deligation pattern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegation_pattern) on Wikipedia.
* [Deligation](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/delegation.html) is a built-in feature of the Kotlin programming language.
* [Deligates](http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Delegates) on Rosetta Code.
* [What is Deligation](http://wiki.c2.com/?WhatIsDelegation) on the Wiki Wiki Web.