Lewis Short
dēlēgātĭo (noun F) : delego, no. II.
* An assignment, substitution, delegation of one person by another.
* Prop.: a mancipe,Cic. Att. 12, 3, 2; of one thing for another: delegatione perfecta solutio,Sen. Ben. 6, 5, 2; cf. context.
* Trop.: necesse est ipse laborem impendas: delegationem res ista non recipit,Sen. Ep. 27, 4.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary