Definition of "delegation" in English

noun

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.

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)