Usually means: Transferring power to lower levels.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. devolving: Merriam-Webster
  2. devolving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. devolving: Vocabulary.com
  4. Devolving, devolving: Wordnik
  5. devolving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. devolving: Wiktionary
  7. devolving: Dictionary.com
  8. Devolving: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Devolving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. devolving: FreeDictionary.org
  11. devolving: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Devolving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. devolving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. devolving: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. devolving: Legal dictionary

(Note: See devolve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (devolve)

verb:  (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
verb:  (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
verb:  (especially of a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc.) To transfer authority and responsibility for (something) to (another entity).
verb:  (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
verb:  (especially of government authority) To shift or to be transferred from a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
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