Usually means: Transfer responsibility or duty to.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. devolve on: Vocabulary.com
  2. devolve on: Dictionary.com
  3. devolve on: Rhymezone
  4. devolve on: FreeDictionary.org
  5. devolve on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  6. devolve on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devolve on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devolve on: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devolve on: Idioms

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verb:  be contingent on


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