delegation
B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The entrusting of the performance of a contractual duty to another person.
The contract permitted delegation of the manufacturing work but not assignment of the right to payment.
Business noun
The act of entrusting tasks and authority to others.
Poor delegation left him overwhelmed while his deputies sat underused.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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