0 present participle of devolve --
1 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.
He recommends that reformers assess the costs and benefits of performance management, the many dimensions of ' customer orientation ', and the difficult process of devolving or decentralising government.
The distinction between local and national is in fact questionable because the crown was devolving responsibility for key areas of military finance on to local communities and individuals.
The classic 'agency' case of devolving financial responsibility to an institution with no financial autonomy (through a block grant, for instance) is represented by cell (3) on the diagram.
But, as noted above, attempts to improve workers' health through devolving responsibility to plantations was shelved.
Its focus on devolving funds to the local level conforms to its grassroots identity.
A new government, or a government in crisis, may find it expedient to reconfigure power even at the expense of devolving power.
Devolving welfare provision onto kin associations fragments civil society into particularistic blocks and prevents unified demands along economic lines.
They also supported zoning because it meant devolving the state police power to localities.
