delegation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: delegation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for delegation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
delegation n a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission] authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions Synonym(s): delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation, deputation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Delegation \Del`ega"tion\, n. [L. delegatio: cf. F. d[82]l[82]gation.] 1. The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates. 2. One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation* from Massachusetts; a deputation. 3. (Rom. Law) A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. --Pothier.