delegating
- 1Present participle and gerund of delegate.
She is delegating much of the paperwork to her new assistant.
Delegating responsibility helped the director focus on long-term strategy.
Note
A form that works with or without an object. Used transitively, it takes the task as its object and the person after to: delegating the filing to an intern. Used intransitively, it names the habit of handing work down at all, which is why the gerund so often stands alone, as in a manager who is bad at delegating. Network administrators also use it transitively for handing authority over a subdomain to someone else.
delegating is a form of delegate
delegate, verb: To assign a task or responsibility to someone else, especially a person who works under you. Full entry
- Spelling
- delegate → delegating: drop the e, add -ing
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