assignee vs delegate

assignee

noun
  • one who is appointed to act or speak in place of another; an agent 

  • one to whom rights or property is being transferred 

  • one to whom a thing is assigned 

delegate

noun
  • A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy. 

  • A representative at a conference, etc. 

  • A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer. 

  • An appointed representative in some legislative bodies. 

verb
  • (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own 

  • to authorize someone to be a delegate 

  • to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate 

How often have the words assignee and delegate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )