delegational

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adjective

Of or pertaining to the delegation of authority.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivedelegational (comparative more delegational, superlative most delegational)

comparative more delegational · superlative most delegational

  1. Of or pertaining to the delegation of authority.

    The intra-delegational negotiations should be no less rigorous and robust than the inter-delegational negotiations.

    2012, Cahen, Arnon, The Minds of Peace Experiment: conflict resolution from the ground up. Israel Affairs, Jan2012, Vol. 18, Issue 1
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    Furthermore, the positional perspective fails to recognize the "uncertain and amorphous relationships" in organizations, where an increasing number of workers are located outside clear delegational hierarchies.

    2020, Bourgoin, Alaric, Bencherki, Nicolas, Faraj, Samer, "And Who Are You?": A Performative Perspective on Authority in Organizations, Academy of Management Journal, Aug2020, Vol. 63, Issue 4

    Compounding these problems are doubts about whether the founding generation could have even made sense of the modern distinction between “abstract” and “concrete” “semantic” intentions, and how likely it is that substantial numbers of Americans in the founding era would have favored a “delegational” model of constitutional interpretation. For all of these reasons, it is dubious that new textualists have solved, or even significantly ameliorated, the levels ‐ of ‐ generality problem.

    2015, Bassham, Gregory, Oakley, Ian, New Textualism: The Potholes Ahead., Ratio Juris. Vol. 28 No. 1 March 2015 (127–48)
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