DEVOLVE
- Transfer or delegate (power) to a lower level, esp. from central government to local or regional administration
- (of duties or responsibility) Pass to (a body or person at a lower level)
- Degenerate or be split into
- means to gradually go from an advanced state to a less advanced state, or to pass something, such as responsibility or power, from one person or group to another person or group at a lower level of authority.
- to transfer from one person to another [v DEVOLVED, DEVOLVES, DEVOLVING]
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