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Walking delegate   /wˈɔkɪŋ dˈɛləgˌeɪt/   Listen
Walking delegate

noun
1.
A union representative who visits workers at their jobs to see whether agreements are observed.






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"Walking delegate" Quotes from Famous Books



... like a man who is not tickled, but feels that it is up to him to laugh at a funny story that he can't see the point of at a banquet where Chauncey Depew tells one of his crippled jokes, and pa was getting nervous. A big grizzly bear was walking delegate in his cage, and he looked at pa as much as to say: "Hello, Teddy, I was not at home when you called in Colorado, but you get in this cage, and I will make you think the Spanish war was a Sunday school picnic ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck



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