Word Meaning

Meaning of "delegation" and the crossword clue

- delegate a representative
- Mission
- Representative group
- 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 to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
- 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.