| Subject | English | Dutch |
| fin. | devolution of management tasks | decentralisatie van de beheerstaken |
| law | devolution upon death | orde van erfopvolging |
| comp., MS | name devolution | naamafkapping (The process by which a DNS resolver attempts to resolve a name by appending the DNS search suffix to the name and, if that query fails, by iteratively querying for the name in the next higher level of the domain hierarchy) |