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title: "What is a delegate?"  
description: "What is a delegate?"  
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"  
published: 2014-09-04  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2134/what-is-a-delegate  
category: "c#"  
tags: ["c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a delegate?

A delegate is similar to a class that is used for storing the reference to a method and invoking that method at runtime, as required. A delegate can hold the reference of only those methods whose signatures are same as that of the delegate. Some of the examples of delegates are type-safe functions, pointers, or callbacks.

## Answers

### Answer by Sumit Kesarwani

A delegate is similar to a class that is used for storing the reference to a method and invoking that method at runtime, as required. A delegate can hold the reference of only those methods whose signatures are same as that of the delegate. Some of the examples of delegates are type-safe functions, pointers, or callbacks.


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