Usually means: Assigning tasks to others efficiently.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word delegation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. delegation: Merriam-Webster
  2. delegation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delegation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delegation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delegation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Delegation, delegation: Wordnik
  7. delegation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. delegation: Wiktionary
  9. delegation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. delegation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. delegation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. delegation: Dictionary.com
  13. delegation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Delegation (band), Delegation (computer security), Delegation (computing), Delegation (disambiguation), Delegation (law), Delegation (object-oriented programming), Delegation (programming), Delegation, The Delegation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Delegation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. delegation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. delegation: Rhymezone
  18. Delegation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. delegation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. delegation: FreeDictionary.org
  21. delegation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. delegation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. delegation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. delegation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. delegation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Delegation: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  5. Delegation: Management Dictionary
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Delegation (law), delegation: Legal dictionary
  8. Delegation (law): Financial dictionary
  9. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delegation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delegation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

(Note: See delegations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of delegating.
noun:  A group of delegates.
noun:  (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
noun:  (law) 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)

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