delegation

Meanings

Plural: delegations

Noun

• a group of representatives or delegates
• authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
• An act of delegating.
• A group of delegates.
• A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
• 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)

Synonyms

commission, delegacy, delegating, deputation, mission, relegating, relegation

Related Words

consultation link, delegate