different between conferment vs delegation

English

Etymology

confer +? -ment

Noun

conferment (countable and uncountable, plural conferments)

1. The act of conferring; a presentation or bestowal.

   a ceremony for the conferment of academic degrees

Synonyms

• conferral

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?l?g?ti?, d?l?g?ti?nis, from d?l?g?: confer French délégation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?l???e???n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

delegation (countable and uncountable, plural delegations)

1. An act of delegating.
2. A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.
3. (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.

   Hyponyms: multicast delegation, singlecast delegation

4. (law) 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)

Related terms

• delegate

Translations

See also

• consultation link

Further reading

• Restament, Second, of Contracts §§ 318–328
• UCC 2-210

Anagrams

• degelation, eloignated

Swedish

Etymology

delegera +? -ation

Noun

delegation c

1. a delegation

Declension