HOW TO PRONOUNCE
delegation
/ˌdɛləˈɡeɪʃən/
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Stress “ga,” using the vowel in “day.”
Keep g hard before that strong long a, then finish with one unstressed shun syllable.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“The delegation arrived before noon.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does delegation mean?
noun
- An act of delegating.
- The condition of being delegated.
- A group of delegates.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
- 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)
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌdɛləˈɡeɪʃən/
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When she presented her note and asked for a box, the local manager looked doubtfully at the delegation.
There was a delegation of Sioux chiefs visiting Washington, and we were spending an evening together in their hotel.
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Utah, the pioneer dry-farm state, was represented by a delegation second in size only to that of Colorado, where the Congress was held.
There was a shirt-waist strike at the time, and the girls were starving, and they sent a delegation to this evangelist to ask for help.
It is a gross error to confound the *exercise* of sovereign powers with *sovereignty* itself, or the *delegation* of such powers with the *surrender* of them.