0 present participle of devolve
1 to (cause power or responsibility to) be given to other people:
To be a good manager, you must know how to devolve responsibility downwards.
formal Those duties will necessarily devolve on/upon me.
By devolving so much interpretation back to the excavators, such context sheets may serve to undermine hierarchical project structures.
The notion of positive interdependence, therefore, has great resonance with devolving power relationships and engaging participants in meaningful learning experiences.
That is to say, the public body was divided into linguistically separate parallel halves without officially devolving media competence to substate entities.
All the countries studied were, for example, diversifying the provision of care, trying to integrate provision across traditional service and professional boundaries, and devolving budgets.
Or, he could have established territorial collectivities that merely deconcentrated power, rather than devolving it away from his own central government.
In other words, the state should retain ownership of the natural resources, while devolving the power to manage and control the resource to the stakeholders.
These detailed conditions are contained in standard contract clauses, which require primes to offset the risks by devolving them through contracts in the supply chain.
They also supported zoning because it meant devolving the state police power to localities.
