Delegation

(n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

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• While Edison was in Cincinnati a delegation of five union operators went over from Cleveland to form a local branch, and the occasion was one of great conviviality. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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