单词	devolve
释义	devolvede‧volve /dɪˈvɒlv $ dɪˈvɑːlv/ verb formal [intransitive, transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINdevolve Origin: 1400-1500 Latin devolvere, from volvere ‘to roll’ Verb Table VERB TABLE devolve Simple Form Present I, you, we, they devolve he, she, it devolves Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they devolved Present perfect I, you, we, they have devolved he, she, it has devolved Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had devolved Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will devolve Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have devolved Continuous Form Present I am devolving he, she, it is devolving you, we, they are devolving Past I, he, she, it was devolving you, we, they were devolving Present perfect I, you, we, they have been devolving he, she, it has been devolving Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been devolving Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be devolving Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been devolving Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Discussions have been initiated and we hope that agreement will be reached with several colleges to devolve responsibility to them in 1989. I found myself staring at her, my mind devolving from the content of the short and impersonal crematorium service. If everyone charges ahead in his own direction, why does society not devolve into anarchy? One result of devolving off-duty allocation to ward level may be arrangements which take too much account of staff interests. Southwark's model of care management will not devolve financial responsibility for community care to care managers. The goal of the welfare bill is to devolve power and responsibilty to the states. They included clauses to devolve power by increasing the autonomy and economic power of local councils. Thus half the effort of benefit-cost analysis would devolve upon the firm, whose owners' best interests dictate accurate cost estimates. 1if you devolve responsibility, power etc to a person or group at a lower level, or if it devolves on them, it is given to themdevolve something to somebody/something The federal government has devolved responsibility for welfare to the states.devolve on/upon Half of the cost of the study will devolve upon the firm.2if land, money etc devolves to someone, it becomes their property when someone else dies SYN  pass
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