Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An act of delegating.

    Delegierung, Abordnung

    делеги́рованиеdelegírovanije

    делегува́нняdelehuvánnja

  2. (countable, uncountable)The condition of being delegated.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A group of delegates.

    the American delegation

    Delegation, Abordnung

    делега́цияdelegácija

    делега́ціяdelehácija

    a group of representatives or delegates

  4. (countable, uncountable)A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

    Delegation

  5. (countable, uncountable)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)

    Anweisung

Examples

17 sentences
  1. No delegation was allowed to visit the besieged region.

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  2. The delegation were escorted around the newly-built stadium.

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  3. The mayor welcomed the delegation with a courtesy visit.

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  4. Many delegations left the meeting room as a sign of protest.

    deViele Delegationen verließen als Zeichen des Protests den Sitzungssaal.

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  5. It was the first delegation that the new country had ever received.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
act of delegating:
a group of delegates:
Русский
By meaning 2
act of delegating:
a group of delegates:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
act of delegating:
a group of delegates:
(law) the substitution of the person who performs:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: delegations
Singulardelegation
Pluraldelegations

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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