Delegate and Operative

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Delegate noun - A person who acts or does business for another.

Usage example: the real estate developer sent a delegate to the town meeting to represent his interests

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Operative and delegate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operative" instead a noun "Delegate".

Operative noun - A person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country.

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Delegate and operative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Delegate" instead a noun "Operative".

single	single delegate	single operative
effective	effective delegate	effective operative
new	new delegate	new operative
foreign	foreign delegate	foreign operative
Other adjectives: soviet, youngest.

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