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.
Assigning to a subordinate the responsibility and commensurate authority to accomplish an objective or specific result.
A regional grouping of AR houses* for the purpose of coordinating community activities. The Delegate would exercise certain limited authority over the Delegation in the name of the Provincial.
The projection of an initiator's identity to another identity in a manner permitting the other identity to operate on behalf of the initiator.
The formal process whereby a health care organization gives another entity the authority to perform a function on its behalf. Typical functions delegated include claim payment, credentialing, and utilization management.
Empowering someone to act on your behalf.
If permitted by the underlying security mechanism, a principal (generally the context initiator) can designate a peer principal (usually the context acceptor) as a proxy by delegating its credentials to it. The delegated credentials can be used by the recipient to make requests on behalf of the original principal, as might be the case when a principal uses rlogin from machine to machine to machine.
is when public functions are transferred to lower levels of government, public corporations or any other authorities outside of the regular political-administrative structure to implement programmes on behalf of a government agency.
Delegation involves the transfer to others of responsibility for carrying out certain tasks, functions or decisions.
(del e GA tion) n: the assignment by a commander to a subordinate of his or her power to administer a specially limited function After his delegation of authority to his deputy, the commander was able to relax.
assigning part of a manager's work and power to other workers
The assignment of formal authority and responsibility for accomplishing a specific task to another person. [7
A person or a group of people who have been officially selected or appointed to represent others.
A power or authority given to a delegate. A delegation is expressed in and limited by a form of words, and is formally assigned by the holder of the power to the delegate.
A person or group of persons officially elected or appointed to represent another or others.
authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
a formal authority or power to do something - allocate budgets, admit students, appoint staff, and the like
an appointment of another to perform one's duties
This is the ability to extend privileges to others – you can think of it as authority about authority. As part of the support for distributed authority management, assignments can be made with or without passing on the ability to further delegate authority to others. Delegation works hand-in-hand with scope to provide a chain of delegated authority along hierarchical lines of an organization.
Assignment of a task, a responsibility, or authority by a manager to a subordinate.
the downward transfer of authority from a manager to a subordinate.
Transfer of authority by one branch of government in which such authority is vested to some other branch or administrative agency.
Transfer of authority from a licensed professional health care provider to an individual not licensed to perform delegated tasks.
An entrustment of decision-making authority during transfer of request for work or offer of resources from a User or Agent to another Agent or Provider, or vice versa. The latter is provided with a well-defined scope of responsibility and privilege at each such layer of transfer of request or offer.
The act of assigning a property of your UserControl to one of its constituent controls. Delegating properties keeps you from having to write code to handle property changes. Instead, the inherent functionality of the constituent control is used.
Transferring responsibility or assigning a task to someone with less authority so that they can carry out the task on your behalf.
principal (generally the context initiator) that, if permitted by the underlying security mechanism, can designate a peer principal (usually the context acceptor) as a proxy. A delegation designates a proxy by delegating its credentials to the peer. The delegated credentials can be used by the recipient to make requests on behalf of the original principal. This situation might happen when a principal uses the rlogin command from machine to machine to machine.
The management company may delegate certain tasks, such as the choice. (of management-related tasks) of securities held by the fund, but remains unconditionally responsible for decisions taken by its appointees as if for its own actions (see "Fund manager ").
The process of one Authority assigning control of an XRI namespace to another Authority by delegating an I-Name or I-Number that resolves to the target Authority. Delegation permits the construction of federated identifiers (identifiers that cross multiple Authorities).
An act whereby one principal authorizes another principal to use its identity or privileges with some restrictions.
Delegation of a measurement task, for example if the responsible user is absent, can be set up from the Add/View targets option from the Strategy Map application.
Delegation is one of the most important security features of Active Directory. Delegation allows a higher administrative authority to grant specific administrative rights for containers and subtrees to individuals and groups. This eliminates the need for domain administrators with broad authority over large segments of users. An access-control entry can grant specific administrative rights on the objects in a container to a user or group. Rights are granted for specific operations on specific object classes using an ACE in the container access-control list.
The act of assigning responsibility for managing a DNS subzone to another server.
The capability whereby a higher administrative authority grants specific rights to groups and individuals.
the assignment, usually by administrative decree, of decision-making authority to other public or private agencies
The ability to assign responsibility for management and administration of a portion of the namespace to another user, group, or organization. For DNS, a name service record in the parent zone that lists the name server authoritative for the delegated zone. See also: Domain Name System (DNS)
Delegation is the handing of a task over to another person, usually a subordinate. It is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person to carry out specific activities. It allows a subordinate to make decisions, i.e. it is a shift of decision-making authority from one organizational level to a lower one.
Delegation is a term used in the law of contracts to describe the act of giving another person the responsibility of carrying out the performance agreed to in a contract. Three parties are concerned with this act - the party who had incurred the obligation to perform under the contract is called the delegator; the party who assumes the responsibility of performing this duty is called the delegatee; and the party to whom this performance is owed is called the obligee.