Definition of "depute"

depute

/dɪ.ˈpjuːt/

verb
third-person singular simple present deputes, present participle deputing, simple past and past participle deputed
1. (obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
2. To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate.
  Quotations
  Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust.
  2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 229
3. To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
  Quotations
  There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 2 Samuel 15:3
  Some persons, deputed by a meeting.
  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
  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.
  2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian‎
4. To appoint; to assign; to choose.
  Quotations
  The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.
  c. 1675, Isaac Barrow, The Duty of Thanksgiving
noun
plural deputes
1. (Scotland) deputy

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depute

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