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The phrase "delegate authority to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of giving someone else the power or authority to act on your behalf. For example: "David delegated authority to his assistant to make decisions while he was on vacation."
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X could also delegate authority to Y so that Y could authorize other nodes.
"In a private company, you can delegate authority to an independent audit committee.
He has failed to overcome his fundamental leadership deficiencies in decisiveness and in confidence to delegate authority to competent subordinates.
Much better to delegate authority to experts and technicians – the people Mosley calls "the architect[s] of our industrial future".
Mr. Bush emphasized in the campaign that he intended to delegate authority to competent aides and advisers, not to micromanage the government.
McGrath attributes many of the changes most closely associated with Bloomberg's tenure — bikes lanes and the smoking ban, for instance — to the Mayor's businesslike tendency to "delegate authority to commissioners who show him numbers that he trusts".
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He delegated authority to his staff.
Barack Obama delegated authority to Kerry to make the determination.
Loyal lobbyists were rewarded with earmarks, leadership support for special amendments and the delegated authority to write legislative provisions.
Denying the president this authority is the same as not delegating authority to cut tariffs, the protectionists' old game.
Wherever he operated, Kennedy delegated authority to a posse of loyalists he'd met long ago back East.
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