delegation

See also: Delegation and délégation

English

Etymology

Latin delegatio: confer French délégation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/

  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

delegation ‎(plural delegations)

1. An act of delegating.
2. A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.
3. (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
4. (law) A contract whereby the original debtor substitutes a new debtor in his stead, with the creditor’s permission.

Hyponyms

computing: Hyponyms for "delegation"

multicast delegation singlecast delegation

Translations

act of delegating

• German: Delegierung f
• Irish: tiomnú m

• Russian: делеги́рование (ru) n ‎(delegírovanije)
• Turkish: görevlendirme

a group of delegates

• Armenian: պատվիրակություն (hy) ‎(patvirakutʿyun)
• Czech: delegace (cs) f
• Esperanto: delegacio
• Finnish: delegaatio (fi), lähetystö
• French: délégation (fr) f
• German: Delegation (de) f
• Greek: αντιπροσωπεία (el) f ‎(antiprosopeía)
• Hebrew: משלחת (mishlakhat) f (2)
• Hungarian: delegáció (hu), küldöttség (hu)

• Ido: delegaciono (io), delegitaro (io)
• Maori: apārangi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: delegasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: delegasjon m

• Portuguese: delegação (pt) f
• Russian: делега́ция (ru) f ‎(delegácija)
• Spanish: delegación (es) f
• Tagalog: delegasyon

(computing) a method dispatching technique

• German: Delegation (de) f

(law) a contract whereby the original debtor substitutes a new debtor in his stead

• German: Übertragung (de) f

• Turkish: vekâlet verme, yetki devri (tr), yetkilendirme (tr)

See also

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Swedish

Etymology

delegera +‎ -ation

Noun

delegation c

1. a delegation

Declension

Inflection of delegation
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	delegation	delegationen	delegationer	delegationerna
Genitive	delegations	delegationens	delegationers	delegationernas