There were people without jobs or needed better jobs and there were cities growing in size and population.
Delegate is the term used for assigning the responsibility of completing a task to another person.
If you delegate a task to someone, you are entrusting that task to another person. Usually the person that delegates a task has seniority over the other person. There are many synonyms for delegate that would also be appropriate to use in the blank, like transfer or assign.
