devolve something to someone

devolve | Business English

devolve
verb[ I or T ]
uk /dɪˈvɒlv/us
POLITICS
to give power or a responsibility to a person or group that is at a lower level or has less authority:
devolve sth to sb/sthSpending under these budget items must be devolved to local offices.
The constitutional changes to devolve power to local authorities will go ahead.
to change something large into several smaller parts of a similar type:
devolve sth into sthA key proposal would devolve the central investigative unit into six regional bodies.
to change from one thing to another, often to something bad:
The stage is set for the country to devolve into military dictatorship, and few seem to care.
LAW
to become a person's property after the owner dies:
devolve to sbRights to the land devolve to one's heirs upon death.

Examples of devolve

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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.
Clearly, by reverting to a more centralized system the party center felt that in 1989 it had devolved too much power to the ordinary members.
This produces an inherently unstable system, managing at arm's length a complex range of diverse organisations to which self-management has been devolved.
Unfortunately, many of the arguments have devolved to an unproductive level.
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.
Administrative budgets have been devolved, and managers have been given increased autonomy in organising offices.
The establishment of these devolved committees with their 'crusading enthusiasm' was later praised officially as a triumph of organisation, devotion, and harmonious cooperation.
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.
Ultimately, responsibility for individual subjects remains with the headteacher and governors, but much work has been increasingly devolved, at least theoretically, to subject leaders.
This makes it attractive to devolve financial responsibility.
However, as much power as possible would devolve on to the local and regional institutions.
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