delegation
nounUK /dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation.
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An act of delegating.
- Decentralisation of the railways was provided for by the establishment of Area Boards for each Region, which began to function on January 1, 1955, and by the extended delegation of powers to the Boards and their General Managers; […].1958 January 23, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
2
A group of delegates.
- the American delegation
3
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
4
Law The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
- The mere delegation of a performance imposes no duty on the delegate to perform. If the delegate performs the duty, the duty is discharged. If the delegate does not perform the duty, the duty is not discharged, but any claim of the obligee for breach is against the delegating party and not against the delegate.2016, Marco J. Jimenez, Contract Law: A Case and Problem Based Approach (Aspen Casebook Series), New York: Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, page 1192:
- Derived terms
- delegation language, nondelegation, predelegation, redelegation, subdelegation
- Related terms
- delegate, consultation link