Usually means: Transfer of power to lower levels.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. devolutionary: Merriam-Webster
  2. devolutionary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. devolutionary: Collins English Dictionary
  4. devolutionary: Wordnik
  5. devolutionary: Wiktionary
  6. devolutionary: Dictionary.com
  7. devolutionary: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. devolutionary: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. devolutionary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devolutionary: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, advocating or permitting devolution.

Similar:
devolutional, deviational, decentralizationist, deviative, deviatoric, evolutive, delegational, developmentary, deflectional, revocational, more...

Opposite:
evolutionary, progressive, advancing, developing

Types:
atavistic, regressive, primitive, reactionary, more...

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Similar:
devolutional, deviational, decentralizationist, deviative, deviatoric, evolutive, delegational, developmentary, deflectional, revocational, more...

Opposite:
evolutionary, progressive, advancing, developing

Types:
atavistic, regressive, primitive, reactionary, more...



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