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delegation

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In object-oriented programming , delegation refers to evaluating a member (property or method) of one object (the receiver) in the context of another, original object (the sender). Delegation can be done explicitly, by passing the sending object to the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Delegation \Del`e*ga"tion\, n. [L. delegatio: cf. F. d['e]l['e]gation.] The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates. One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation , commission , delegacy , mission ] authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions [syn: delegating , relegating , relegation , deputation ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE congressional ▪ California already has the largest congressional delegation with 52 members in the House of Representatives. ▪ Don Edwards, D-San Jose, the dean of the California congressional delegation . ▪ The ...

Usage examples of delegation.

Virginia legislature acted promptly upon this recommendation and appointed a delegation to go to Philadelphia.

He stood silently behind the podium as he watched the shaken delegations file out of the auditorium until only he, Joaquin, and Ament remained.

These boons were offset, however, by a new delegation summoning Becket and the king again to arbitrament of their grievances, and setting Ascension Day as the term of papal leniency.

Harper said, sounding uncharacteristically nervou He plainly believed that either ather Sarsfield, Captain Donaju or Captain lacy should broach the delicate subject that had caused this delegation to seek Sharpe out, but the cha lain and the two em assed officers were silent.

Aviendha stood among a delegation of Wise Ones, Amys and Bair and Melaine, Sorilea of course, Chaelin, a Smoke Water Miagoma with touches of gray in her dark red hair, and Edarra, a Neder Shiande who looked not much older than himself, though she already had an apparently unshakable calm in her blue eyes and a straight-backed presence to match the others.

Languedoc sent a delegation of nobles and bourgeois with a gift of 10,000 florins and the assurance that their lives, goods, and fortunes were dedicated to his delivery.

For example, she knew that yesterday a congressional delegation, or codel, headed by Bob Dole, had met with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.

Opposed to this is the view that the right of Congress to delegate power to the President is limited in this as in other cases but that where the validity of the delegation depends upon whether or not too great a latitude of discretion has been conferred upon the Executive, the existence of a state of war is a factor to be considered in determining whether the delegation in the particular case is necessary and hence permissible.

My counterparts on the South Vietnamese delegation, the Four Party Joint Military Team, evacuated their families, but they stayed to the very end and ended up in re-education camps, by and large, after the takeover.

Only yesterday a delegation had arrived from Fimbria, of all places, with an escort of forty sable-clad pikemen.

But Richard arrived with his delegation from Gaillard in a barge and did not land.

Louis and Milwaukee delegations, and by Secretary Hough of Philadelphia, Thomas Navin of Detroit and representatives from Boston and Providence.

On May 23, 1951, a Tibetan delegation headed by Kalon Ngabo Ngawang Jigmestill the most important collaborator and the commander of the Tibetan troops in Kham who had weakly surrendered to the Chinesesigned a seventeen-point agreement which stripped the Tibetans of the right to independent foreign policy and defense decisions but otherwise left them their internal autonomy.

Solut Mek Kem pointed to the Foitani delegations from Odern and Rof Golan.

Great Khang signaled the rest of his delegation and led them from the cavern.