Delegation is the assignment of any responsibility or authority to another person. Delegation may also refer to: Delegation (band), a British soul musical group 1975–1999 Delegation (computing), passing of something from one entity to another Delegation (computer security), handing a user's authentication credentials to another user Delegation (law), in contract law, the act of giving another person the responsibility of carrying out agreed performance Delegation (object-oriented programming), evaluating a member of one object in the context of another Delegations of Tunisia, second-level administrative subdivisions The Delegation, a 2018 Albanian film See also Delegate (disambiguation) Delegation theory Subsidiarity Subsidiarity (European Union) Subsidiarity (Catholicism) Devolution Municipalities of Mexico City, or delegaciones