What is the definition of delegated powers?

A Long Time Before when there used to be just the single Person who was responsible for all the activities within a company. With the passage of time, When companies started to grow, it became difficult for a sole man or women to control each and every business activity. That's the situation in which the concept of Power Delegation occurred. In this way, an owner of business started dividing his powers to different trusted individuals to expand the business effectively and efficiently.

So the delegated power is the authority that's delivered by the owner to his employees in a specific business.

It might be said the Political or Social Power that is inherited by Ancestors or Someone Greater in Rank