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1. (n.) The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

2. (n.) One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.

3. (n.) A kind of notation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.

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accession agency agentship anointing anointment appointment arrogation assignment assumption authority authorization brevet care change charge commendation commission commissioning commitment committee commutation consecration consignment coronation cure delegated authority deputation deputyship devolution devolvement displacement election embassy empowerment enfeoffment entrusting entrustment errand exchange executorship exequatur factorship full power infeodation infeudation jurisdiction legation legitimate succession license lieutenancy mandate mission office plenipotentiary power power of attorney power to act procuration proxy purview quid pro quo regency regentship relegation remanding replacement representation responsibility seizure subcommittee subrogation substitution succession supersedence superseding supersedure supersession supplantation supplanting supplantment switch taking over task tit for tat trust trusteeship usurpation vicarious authority vicariousness warrant
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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