0 past simple and past participle of deputize --
1 to act or speak for another person, especially at work: --
He played in all three of the group matches and deputized as a center back.
Once he is deputized, given power by the white law enforcement, and charged to suppress the white workers, he relishes the terror he inspires.
When the sheriff returned with 125 newly deputized agents two days later, the strikers rallied 5,000 townspeople to their cause.
After he is deputized, he recruits new police officers for his father.
Collectively the arbitrators were deputized to adjudicate on the legal possessors of the lands in question.
He deputized two men and returned with them to the saloon.
Firestorm was deputized and put on her trail.
He has attempted to have his police officers deputized as immigration officers.
