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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DELEGATION, n.
1. A sending away; the act of putting in commission, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate.
The duties of religion cannot be performed by delegation.
2. Th persons deputed to act for another, or for others. Thus, the representatives of Massachusetts in Congress are called the delegation, or whole delegation.
3. In the civil law, the assignment of a debt to another, as when a debtor appoints his debtor to answer to the creditor in his place.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission]
2: authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions [syn: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation, deputation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1612 1. the act of empowering to act for another 2. a group of persons chosen to represent others

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a body of delegates; a deputation. 2 the act or process of delegating or being delegated. Etymology: L delegatio (as DELEGATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Delegation Del`e*ga"tion, n. [L. delegatio: cf. F. d['e]l['e]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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(delegations) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. A delegation is a group of people who have been sent somewhere to have talks with other people on behalf of a larger group of people. He was sent to New York as part of the Dutch delegation to the United Nations. N-COUNT see also delegate

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Delegating, intrusting, committal. 2. Deputies, delegates, body of delegates or representatives.

Moby Thesaurus

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