0 to (cause power or responsibility to) be given to other people: --
formal Those duties will necessarily devolve on/upon me.
To be a good manager, you must know how to devolve responsibility downwards.
1 to give power or a responsibility to a person or group that is at a lower level or has less authority: --
The constitutional changes to devolve power to local authorities will go ahead.
devolve sth to sb/sth Spending under these budget items must be devolved to local offices.
2 to change something large into several smaller parts of a similar type: --
3 to change from one thing to another, often to something bad: --
However, as much power as possible would devolve on to the local and regional institutions.
This makes it attractive to devolve financial responsibility.
Ultimately, responsibility for individual subjects remains with the headteacher and governors, but much work has been increasingly devolved, at least theoretically, to subject leaders.
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.
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.
Or, he could have established territorial collectivities that merely deconcentrated power, rather than devolving it away from his own central government.
The establishment of these devolved committees with their 'crusading enthusiasm' was later praised officially as a triumph of organisation, devotion, and harmonious cooperation.
Administrative budgets have been devolved, and managers have been given increased autonomy in organising offices.
