How Many Syllables Are in Devolved

The word Devolved has three syllables: de-volved.
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Definition of Devolved

To transfer or delegate power or responsibility to a lower level, especially from central government to local or regional administration.

How should Devolved divide into syllables

There are two vowels in this word - 'e' and 'o'. The remaining letters are consonants - 'd', 'v', 'l', and 'd'.

Part of Speech - Devolved

The government devolved some of its power to the local councils.

Sentences with Devolved

• The teacher devolved some of the responsibility to the students for the group project.
• The company devolved decision-making power to the regional offices.
• The monarch devolved power to the Parliament.
• The manager devolved some of the tasks to the junior staff.
• The governor devolved responsibility for the disaster relief to the local authorities.
• The mayor devolved the budget allocation to the city council.
• The CEO devolved the authority to the department heads.
• The president devolved some of the military decision-making to the generals.
• The parent devolved the household chores to the children.
• The captain devolved the leadership to the first mate.

Quotes with Devolved

• Power devolves from the many to the few or the one.
• The power to tax is the power to destroy, and it has devolved upon the Congress the responsibility of determining whether a tax is destructive or productive.
• The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
• In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
• The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
• A people free to choose will always choose peace.
• The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Number of characters in Devolved

8 ( d, e, v, o, l, v, e, d )

Unique letters in Devolved

5 ( d, e, v, o, l )

Devolved Backwards

devloved

How to Pronounce Devolved

IPA (International): dɪˈvɑ:lvd

ARA (American): dɪˈvɑlvd

EPA (English): dɪˈvɑ:lvd

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