delegation

See also: Delegation and délégation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

delegation (countable and uncountable, plural delegations)

1. An act of delegating.
2. A group of delegates.

   the American delegation

3. (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

   Hyponyms: multicast delegation, singlecast delegation

4. (law) 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)
   • 2016, Marco J. Jimenez, Contract Law: A Case and Problem Based Approach (Aspen Casebook Series), New York: Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, page 1192:

     The mere delegation of a performance imposes no duty on the delegate to perform. If the delegate performs the duty, the duty is discharged. If the delegate does not perform the duty, the duty is not discharged, but any claim of the obligee for breach is against the delegating party and not against the delegate.

Derived terms

• delegation language

Related terms

• delegate

Translations

act of delegating

• Arabic: تَفْوِيض m (tafwīḍ)
• Finnish: delegointi (fi), antaminen tehtäväksi, valtuutus (fi), valtuuttaminen (fi)
• German: Delegierung f, Abordnung (de) f
• Hungarian: delegálás (hu)
• Irish: tiomnú m
• Polish: delegowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: delegação (pt) f
• Russian: делеги́рование (ru) n (delegírovanije)
• Swedish: delegering (sv) c
• Turkish: görevlendirme
• Ukrainian: делегува́ння n (delehuvánnja)

a group of delegates

• Albanian: delegacion (sq) m, delegim (sq) m
• Arabic: بِعْثَة f (biʕṯa), وَفْد m (wafd)
• Armenian: պատվիրակություն (hy) (patvirakutʻyun)
• Asturian: delegación f
• Azerbaijani: nümayəndə heyəti
• Belarusian: дэлега́цыя f (deljehácyja)
• Bulgarian: делега́ция (bg) f (delegácija)
• Burmese: ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖွဲ့ (my) (kuiyca:hlaia.hpwai.)
• Catalan: delegació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 代表團／代表团 (zh) (dàibiǎotuán)

• Czech: delegace (cs) f
• Danish: delegation c
• Dutch: delegatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: delegacio
• Estonian: delegatsioon
• Finnish: delegaatio (fi), valtuuskunta (fi), lähetystö (fi)
• French: délégation (fr) f
• Georgian: დელეგაცია (delegacia)
• German: Delegation (de) f, Abordnung (de) f
• Greek: αντιπροσωπεία (el) f (antiprosopeía)
• Gujarati: પ્રતિનિધિમંડળ n (pratinidhimaṇḍaḷ)
• Hebrew: מִשׁלַחַת (he) f (mishlakhat)
• Hindi: प्रत्यायोजन (pratyāyojan)
• Hungarian: delegáció (hu), küldöttség (hu)
• Ido: delegaciono (io), delegitaro (io)
• Italian: delegazione (it) f
• Japanese: 代表団 (だいひょうだん, daihyōdan)
• Kazakh: делегация (delegasiä)
• Khmer: គណៈបេសកកម្ម (kĕəʼnaʼpeesaʼkaʼkam), គណៈប្រតិភូ (kĕəʼnaʼprɑtephuu)
• Korean: 대표단(代表團) (ko) (daepyodan)
• Kyrgyz: делегация (delegatsiya)
• Lao: ຄະນະຜູ້ແທນ (kha na phū thǣn)
• Latvian: delegācija f
• Lithuanian: delegacija f
• Macedonian: делегација f (delegacija)
• Malay: delegasi
• Maori: apārangi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: delegasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: delegasjon m

• Pashto: استازډله f (astāzḍala), نيابت (ps) m (neyābat), وفد m (wafd)
• Persian: نمایندگی (fa) (namâyandegi), وفد (fa) (vafd)
• Polish: delegacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: delegação (pt) f
• Romanian: delegație (ro) f
• Russian: делега́ция (ru) f (delegácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: делега́ција f

  Roman: delegácija (sh) f

• Slovak: delegácia f
• Slovene: delegacija f
• Spanish: delegación (es) f
• Swedish: delegation (sv) c
• Tagalog: delegasyon
• Tajik: ҳайати вакилон (hayati vakilon), ҳайати намояндагон (hayati namoyandagon), намояндагӣ (tg) (namoyandagi), вафд (vafd)
• Thai: คณะผู้แทน (ká-ná-pûu-tɛɛn)
• Turkish: delegasyon (tr)
• Turkmen: delegasiýa, delegatsiýa
• Ukrainian: делега́ція f (delehácija)
• Uzbek: delegatsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: đoàn đại biểu

(computing) a method dispatching technique

• Finnish: delegointi (fi)
• German: Delegation (de) f

(law) the substitution of the person who performs

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can.
• Finnish: valtuutus (fi), valtuuttaminen (fi)
• French: délégation (fr) f
• German: Anweisung (de) f
• Latin: dēlēgātiō f
• Swedish: överlåtande (sv) n
• Welsh: dirprwyaeth f

See also

• consultation link

Further reading

• Restament, Second, of Contracts §§ 318–328
• UCC 2-210

Anagrams

• degelation, eloignated

Danish

Noun

delegation c (singular definite delegationen, plural indefinite delegationer)

1. delegation

Declension

Declension of delegation

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	delegation	delegationen	delegationer	delegationerne
genitive	delegations	delegationens	delegationers	delegationernes

References

• “delegation” in Den Danske Ordbog

Swedish

Etymology

delegera +‎ -ation

Noun

delegation c

1. a delegation
2. delegation (act of delegating)

Declension

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

References

• delegation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• delegation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• delegation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)