delegation.
An act of delegating.
Meaning & usage
An act of delegating.
The condition of being delegated.
A group of delegates.
the American delegation
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)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation.
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