Having transferred power or responsibility downward; or the past tense of devolve meaning that power or duty was handed down.
Past tense and past participle of 'devolve,' created by adding the -ed suffix to indicate a completed action or resulting state.
When someone says Scotland has 'devolved powers,' they mean Scotland now makes its own decisions on certain issues—the power literally rolled down from the central UK government to the Scottish Parliament.
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