deputization

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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.