Deputation vs Transfer - What's the difference?
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The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
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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.
To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
To be or become transferred.
(legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
(uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
(countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
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(countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
(medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
As nouns the difference between deputation and transfer
is that deputation is deputation while transfer is transfer.deputation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.
Anagrams
*transfer
English
(wikipedia transfer)Verb
(transferr)- to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
- to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- The title to land is transferred by deed.
Synonyms
* carry over, move, onpass * (convey impression of from one surface to another) copy, transpose * (to be or become transferred)Derived terms
* transferee * transferorNoun
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