Delegation is the entrustment by a party of work or responsibility and authority to another and the creation of accountability for performance. A delegation can also be a group of individuals, often called delegates, who represent the interests of a larger organization or body, often from a geographical area.

The word also refers to:

• Delegation (TV), an Irish television quiz show.
• Delegation (law), a term in contract law that describes the effects of giving another person the responsibility of carrying out the performance agreed to in a contract.
• Delegation (band), a British funk musical group
• Delegation Theory
• a second-level administrative subdivision of a county as in Delegations of Tunisia

Computing

In computing, delegation refers generally to one entity passing something to another entity, and narrowly to various specific forms of relationships:

• Delegation (object-oriented programming), evaluating a member of one object (the receiver) in the context of another, original object (the sender).
  • Delegation pattern, a design pattern implementing this feature.
  • Forwarding (object-oriented programming), an often-confused technique where a sending object uses the corresponding member of another object, without the receiving object having any knowledge of the original, sending object.
  • Object aggregation or consultation, general term for one object using another.
• Delegation (computer security), one user or process allowing another user or process to use their credentials or permissions.
• Delegate (CLI), a form of type-safe function pointer used by the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), specifying both a method to call and optionally an object to call the method on.

See also

• Delegate (disambiguation)
• For the "Delegation Parties" of Egyptian politics, see Wafd Party and New Wafd Party,
• For the Spanish term delegación, see Boroughs of the Mexican Federal District.