Delegation vs. Relegation: What's the Difference?

The act of delegating.

To consign to an inferior or obscure place, rank, category, or condition

The condition of being delegated.

To refer or assign (a matter or task, for example) for decision or action

A person or group of persons officially elected or appointed to represent another or others.

The act of being relegated

An act of delegating.

(sports) Moving from one division to a lower one, due to poor results

A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

(computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions

(legal)Law of obligations The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)

The act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category

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

Mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position;

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.

A kind of novation 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.

A group of representatives or delegates

Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions