delegation

See also: Delegation and délégation

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#DELEGATIONCategory:English terms derived from Latin#DELEGATION dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation.

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Noun

delegation (countable and uncountable, plural delegations)Category:English lemmas#DELEGATIONCategory:English nouns#DELEGATIONCategory:English uncountable nouns#DELEGATIONCategory:English countable nouns#DELEGATIONCategory:English countable nouns#DELEGATIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DELEGATIONCategory:Pages with entries#DELEGATIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DELEGATION

  1. An act of delegating.
    • 1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
      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; [] .
      Category:English terms with quotations#DELEGATION
  2. A group of delegates.
  3. (computingCategory:en:Computing#DELEGATION) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
    Hyponyms: multicast delegation, singlecast delegation
  4. (lawCategory:en:Law#DELEGATION)Category:en:Law of obligations#DELEGATION 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)
    • 2016, Marco J. Jimenez, Contract Law: A Case and Problem Based Approach (Aspen Casebook Series), New York: Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, page 1192:
      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.
      Category:English terms with quotations#DELEGATION

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Danish

Noun

delegation c (singular definite delegationen, plural indefinite delegationer)Category:Danish lemmas#DELEGATIONCategory:Danish nouns#DELEGATIONCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#DELEGATIONCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#DELEGATIONCategory:Pages with entries#DELEGATIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DELEGATION

  1. delegation

Declension

Declension of delegation
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative delegation delegationen delegationer delegationerne
genitive delegations delegationens delegationers delegationernes

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Swedish

Etymology

delegera + -ationCategory:Swedish terms suffixed with -ation#DELEGATION

Noun

delegation cCategory:Swedish lemmas#DELEGATIONCategory:Swedish nouns#DELEGATIONCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#DELEGATIONCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#DELEGATIONCategory:Pages with entries#DELEGATIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DELEGATION

  1. a delegation
  2. delegation (act of delegating)

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