delegation.

1. The act of entrusting a task or decision-making power to another person.

2. A group sent to act or speak on behalf of others.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• delegation of authority
• effective delegation

On the page

Effective delegation freed the director to focus on strategy.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common.