Verb
depute (third-person singular simple present deputes, present participle deputing, simple past and past participle deputed)
- (obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
- To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate.
2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 229:Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust.
- To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:Some persons, deputed by a meeting.
2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:Viewing the forces arrayed against him at the G20, President Vladimir Putin deputed Lavrov to attend the two-day event in his stead, and for a brief moment it appeared to have been too much.
- To appoint; to assign; to choose.
c. 1675, Isaac Barrow, The Duty of Thanksgiving:The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.
Translations
To delegate to a subordinate
- Bulgarian: делегирам (bg) (delegiram)
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