delegation

delegation is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
2. noun. One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
3. noun. A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
4. noun. authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions

   Synonyms: delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation

5. noun. a group of representatives or delegates

   Synonyms: commission, delegacy, deputation, mission

Synonyms

delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation, commission, delegacy, mission

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in delegation:

degelation

Common word forms

delegations

Words from these letters

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