delegation

Signification (Anglais)

  1. (countable, uncountable) An act of delegating.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A group of delegates.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
  4. (countable, uncountable) 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)

Fréquence

C2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

Borrowed from Latin dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation.

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