Noun

(en noun)

A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}

Discussion or deliberation.

* Milton

Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.

* Alexander Pope

O great in action and in council wise.

Noun

(en noun)

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

* South

The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.

The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.

Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field. This use of the word has been common in churches and mission organizations for over a century, but has recently been giving way to the more "bureaucratic" term "home ministry assignment". As commonly used, a missionary does deputation'' or is ''on deputation . However, the missionary is not called a "deputy" nor is the person said to be a part of a "deputation". Deputation begins when the missionary is officially commissioned to be a missionary, and it ends when the person goes to the mission field.