Usually means: Delegation or redirection of tasks.
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  1. indirection: Merriam-Webster
  2. indirection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indirection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indirection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. indirection: Vocabulary.com
  6. indirection: Wordnik
  7. indirection: Wiktionary
  8. indirection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. indirection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. indirection: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Indirection, indirection: Dictionary.com
  12. Indirection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Indirection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. indirection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. indirection: Rhymezone
  16. Indirection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. indirection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. indirection: FreeDictionary.org
  19. indirection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. indirection: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. indirection: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. indirection: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. indirection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (indirection)

noun:  An indirect action or process.
noun:  A lack of direction; deviousness or aimlessness.
noun:  (programming) Use of a variable or object through its address.

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