Usually means: Transfer of power to local authorities.
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  1. devolution: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. devolution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. devolution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. devolution: Collins English Dictionary
  5. devolution: Vocabulary.com
  6. Devolution, devolution: Wordnik
  7. devolution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. devolution: Wiktionary
  9. devolution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. devolution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. devolution: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. devolution: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N, Devolution (Scotland), Devolution (album), Devolution (band), Devolution (biological fallacy), Devolution (biology), Devolution (disambiguation), Devolution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Devolution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. devolution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. devolution: Rhymezone
  18. Devolution: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. devolution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  1. devolution: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. DEVOLUTION: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Devolution: Management Dictionary
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  9. devolution: Legal dictionary
  10. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. devolution: Encyclopedia

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  1. devolution: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See devolutionary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A rolling down.
noun:  A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession.
noun:  The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
noun:  (derogatory) Degeneration.
noun:  (government) The transfer of some powers and the delegation of some functions from a central government to local government (e.g. from the U.K. parliament to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly).

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