搜尋結果
devolve
- IPA[dəˈvälv]
美式
- transfer or delegate (power) to a lower level, especially from central government to local or regional administration;(of duties or responsibility) pass to (a body or person at a lower level)
verb: devolve, 3rd person present: devolves, gerund or present participle: devolving, past tense: devolved, past participle: devolved
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. transfer or delegate (power) to a lower level, especially from central government to local or regional administration measures to devolve power to the provinces
- ▪ (of duties or responsibility) pass to (a body or person at a lower level) his duties devolved on a comrade
- ▪ degenerate or be split into the Empire devolved into separate warring states