deputization

English

Alternative forms

• deputisation

Noun

deputization (countable and uncountable, plural deputizations)

1. The process of becoming a deputy.
   • 1922, Herbert Watson, The Knack of Managing: System's New Method of Training Men to Manage:

     Here we have, not a question of the deputization of work to assistants, but of the DEPUTIZATION OF THE WORK OF CAPITAL TO BORROWED FUNDS.

   • 1966, Annual Report of the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs to the Governor of Arizona, Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs:

     The sheriff departments gave fourteen deputizations to the Indian police on ten reservations.