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What is a devolution?

What is a devolution? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A rolling down.
  2. A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession
  3. The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
  4. (pejorative) Degeneration (as opposed to evolution).
  5. (Britain) The transfer of some powers, and the delegation of some functions, from a central sovereign government to local government; eg. from Westminster to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
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He was an independent at Highland council and was only inducted into the Labour party on the eve of devolution.
A special survey of Welsh voters shows next week's devolution referendum in the principality is too close to call.
The two men had been at loggerheads over a long-running dispute about devolution.
The malpractices, incompetence, cronyism and corruption he rightly castigates are not a product of devolution.
The party has fought two campaigns under the banner of devolution and has not reached its objective of forming the Scottish administration.
He opposed devolution consistently, and with some asperity, precisely because of its potential to elide into independence.

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