About The Word Delegation
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Delegation
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What's The Definition Of Delegation?
[n] authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
[n] a group of representatives or delegates Synonyms | Synonyms for Delegation: commission | delegacy | delegating | deputation | deputation | mission | relegating | relegation Related Terms | Find terms related to Delegation: accession | agency | agentship | anointing | anointment | appointment | arrogation | assignment | assumption | authority | authorization | brevet | care | change | charge | commendation | commission | commissioning | commitment | committee | commutation | consecration | consignment | coronation | cure | delegated authority | deputation | deputyship | devolution | devolvement | displacement | election | embassy | empowerment | enfeoffment | entrusting | entrustment | errand | exchange | executorship | exequatur | factorship | full power | infeodation | infeudation | jurisdiction | legation | legitimate succession | license | lieutenancy | mandate | mission | office | plenipotentiary power | power of attorney | power to act | procuration | proxy | purview | quid pro quo | regency | regentship | relegation | remanding | replacement | representation | responsibility | seizure | subcommittee | subrogation | substitution | succession | supersedence | superseding | supersedure | supersession | supplantation | supplanting | supplantment | switch | taking over | task | tit for tat | trust | trusteeship | usurpation | vicarious authority | vicariousness | warrant See Also | authorisation | authorization | devolution | devolvement | diplomatic mission | embassy | empowerment | organisation | organization Delegation In Webster's Dictionary \Del`e*ga"tion\, n. [L. delegatio: cf. F.
d['e]l['e]gation.]
1. The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act
for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
2. One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned
to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress,
etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation
from Massachusetts; a deputation.
3. (Rom. Law) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be
liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who
becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the
person appointed by him. --Pothier.
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