delegation

CEFRB1

/dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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A group of delegates.
A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
An act of delegating.

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The Dutch delegation to the United Nations
the American delegation
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; […].

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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 26, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15
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

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Borrowed from Latin dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation.