0 past simple and past participle of depute --
1 to ask someone to act or speak for you: --
She's deputing the organization of the exhibition to Sara.
[ + to infinitive ] I've deputed Lara Brown to speak for me at the conference.
As a matter of fact, farmers were, as a general rule, notified of the intended visit of the person or persons deputed to select grass land to be broken up.
I was deputed to have a look at it and make recommendations.
Lawfully deputed must mean according to the laws of the particular country.
I esteem it a great privilege to have been deputed to reply.
If this is not possible, one voluntary organisation should be deputed to act as a clearing house.
Consequently, the returning officer, or the representative of the local authority deputed to serve in his stead, would be wasting his time.
There are councils which have deputed members of their staff to try to persuade council tenants to abandon their applications.
The head boy of that school was deputed to show me round, without any staff present.
