devolution
转移,转让,转化,移交
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Definitions
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- : the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- : the passing on to a successor of an unexercised right.
- : Law. the passing of property from one to another, as by hereditary succession.
- : Biology. degeneration.
- : the transfer of power or authority from a central government to a local government.
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In addition to all kinds of juicy details, Tom provides a schema for how to understand the city’s evolution, or devolution, depending on your point of view.
The date never comes to pass, and it will take most of the six-episode series to trace her long devolution into the battered, traumatized creature who wakes up in jail less than a year later.
Cameron said no, reasoning that Scotland was likely to opt for greater devolution but would stop short of total independence.
Kristol et al may long for such a devolution, but polls suggest that the majority of Americans do not.
It is an old native element recast in Roman form, and well illustrates the Roman principle of local government by devolution.
This argument for the obligation of the Consuming Class is based upon the devolution of duties.
It was thus that the first of his wars for the extension of frontiers began, the War of Devolution.
The principle of local devolution is carried somewhat further in Madras than in other provinces.
It is only when a partition takes place that the devolution of the shares by inheritance has to be traced.