English edit

Etymology edit

devolve +‎ -ment

Noun edit

devolvement (countable and uncountable, plural devolvements)

  1. The act or process of devolving; devolution.
  2. (banking)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “devolvement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)