The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

(transitive) To officially empower, authorize, pronounce, and establish (someone) to be a deputy.

(obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something. / To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate. / To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy. / To appoint; to assign; to choose.

(Scotland) deputy

Of or relating to a deputation.

plural of deputator

plural of deputer

One who deputizes.

plural of deputizer

The process of becoming a deputy.