nondelegable
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8.9
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈdɛlɪɡəbl/
- Jargon
- In many professions, certain responsibilities are considered nondelegable, meaning that the individual must fulfill them personally.
Examples
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Or perhaps the Second Amendment should be read to require a draft reading the people's right to bear arms, in effect, as a nondelegable duty.
Academic text (2000) -
It is nondelegable.
Academic text (1999) -
The contract specified that the nondelegable tasks could not be assigned to anyone else without permission.
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As a parent, you have nondelegable duties to care for and protect your children.
Synonyms
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6.8
You cannot give it to someone else to use
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8.4
Cannot be given or sold to another person
Not able to be replaced in a job or duty
How Transferable
Surface Forms
Morphology
nondelegable = delegable (transparent) = non + delegate + able
Formed by productive prefix 'non-' added to 'delegable' (delegate + -able), so the meaning is directly 'not able to be delegated'.
Etymology
The word nondelegable joins non- 'not' and delegate 'to give a task to someone else'. The part delegate comes from an old idea of 'sending or trusting' someone with work, so nondelegable means a duty you 'cannot give away' and must be done by the person in charge.