delegated authority
Borrowed decision-making rights
Delegated authority is power or decision-making responsibility passed from one person or body to another.
A manager with delegated authority acts on behalf of someone higher: The committee has delegated authority to approve grants up to fifty thousand dollars.
The term appears frequently in legal, corporate, and governmental contexts where chains of command matter.
- authorizationFormal permission granted
- devolvedDeclined in quality
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- proxyAuthorized substitute
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
regent · fiduciary duty · empowerment · administrative law · executive order · scope of work · chain of command · decentralization · rulemaking · contract · agency · appointed · hierarchy · enforceability · chain of custody · team leadership · signature · rubber stamp
- constitutional governmentseparation of powers, checks and balances, branches of government, executive branch, legislative branch
- regulationsrules, rule, regulations, regulation, law
delegated authoritysovereign power
Ultimate governmental authority
divine right · constitutional authority · original jurisdiction · supreme authority · reserved powers