devolvement

1. 1.

   the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)

   Synonymsdevolution

   Broaderdelegating

   government

Other forms of devolvement

plural

devolvements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about devolvement

What does devolvement mean?

devolvement means "the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)".

How many syllables are in devolvement?

devolvement has 4 syllables: de-vol-ve-ment. The stress falls on "vol".

What is another word for devolvement?

Close synonyms include devolution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devolvement a common word?

devolvement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.