The phrase "delegate down" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to delegate or pass down responsibilities or tasks to someone lower in rank or with less authority. Example: The CEO decided to delegate down some of her tasks to the new managers in order to reduce her workload.
"On balance, I'd rather delegate down to the individual commissioner, then hold the commissioner responsible," Mr. Bloomberg said.
To the extent that I am definitely, and I think we, the rest of the agents I've heard from, are definitely in favor that when it's possible to delegate down to a lower authority level, we will be more nimble and agile.
Last year's CES welcomed 113,000 delegates, down from the 152,000 that flocked to the show at its peak in 2006.
But he didn't win by much, and may split the delegates down the middle with Rick Santorum.
While the recent increases in incidents were central high-level decisions, the physical execution of policy was delegated down.
Bobrow reports that while it's relatively easy to get top people to sign on, effecting changes gets harder as responsibility for implementation is delegated down, since each stop along the way disrupts somebody's budget.
And there is one additional thing, I think, in those A.G. guidelines which delegates down to the SACs (Special Agents in Charge) the ability and the authority to open up a case, a preliminary inquiry.
It's a sad fact, but there's so much Proper News around today that the business of milling rumours has been delegated down to papers' B, C and possibly even D teams.
Whether you are a manager delegating down, or you simply asked one of your colleagues to help you with something, isn't there just the smallest chance that the reason the task didn't go as planned is because you didn't make clear what you wanted?
In order to avoid two different web sites having the same name, there is an organisation called the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which decides on who may use a name, although this is delegated down to regional organisations.
A few weeks ago, Brazil and Colombia sent delegates down to Insite to see how it works; both countries hope to start a similar harm reduction initiative.
