Delegation is the assignment of any responsibility or authority to another person.

Delegation may also refer to:

  • Delegation (band), a British soul musical group 1975–1999
  • Delegation (computing), passing of something from one entity to another
  • Delegation (computer security), handing a user's authentication credentials to another user
  • Delegation (law), in contract law, the act of giving another person the responsibility of carrying out agreed performance
  • Delegation (object-oriented programming), evaluating a member of one object in the context of another
  • Delegations of Tunisia, second-level administrative subdivisions
  • The Delegation, a 2018 Albanian film

See also

  • Delegate (disambiguation)
  • Delegation theory
  • Subsidiarity
  • Subsidiarity (European Union)
  • Subsidiarity (Catholicism)
  • Devolution
  • Municipalities of Mexico City, or delegaciones