0 past simple and past participle of depute
1 to ask someone to act or speak for you:
[ + to infinitive ] I've deputed Lara Brown to speak for me at the conference.
She's deputing the organization of the exhibition to Sara.
More crucially, they are usually deputed to the tasks of organizing and conducting elections.
In many cases a civil servant is deputed to decide political applications on their merits.
The fear of death was not in the minds of those who were deputed by their peers to commit those acts.
I take it that there are officials deputed to check the various costs of the firms of solicitors.
All too often, the subject is taught by teachers with no special training in religious education who have been deputed to teaching it.
We number 14, and we had deputed three of our number to speak, if possible.
I am deputed by both those bodies to press for the acceptance of that resolution.
The head boy of that school was deputed to show me round, without any staff present.
