Definitions For Devolution

noun

  • The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government)
  • The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
  • The act or process by which a central government gives power, property, etc., to local groups or governments

Is Devolutions a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
15
Words with Friends
19

The word Devolution is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Devolution in a Sentence

  • The gradual devolution of the neighborhood from a thriving community of close-knit families to a drug-ridden slum

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Antonyms for Devolutions

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