Recent burst in ladies troubled delegate to local authority (12)
I believe the answer is:
decentralise
'delegate to local authority' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'recent burst in ladies troubled' is the wordplay.
'burst' is an anagram indicator.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'troubled' indicates an anagram.
'recent' anagrammed gives 'ecentr'.
'ladies' with letters rearranged gives 'dalise'.
'ecentr' placed inside 'dalise' is 'DECENTRALISE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for decentralise that I've seen is " Transfer authority to the regions".)