Deputize vs Depute - What's the difference?
deputize | depute |
To make (someone) a deputy; to officially empower.
To make or name as a substitute.
(obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 229:
To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
* Bible 2. Sam. xv. 3
* Macaulay
To appoint; to assign; to choose.
* Barrow
As verbs the difference between deputize and depute
is that deputize is to make (someone) a deputy; to officially empower while depute is to assign (someone or something) to or for something.As a noun depute is
deputy.deputize
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Alternative forms
* (UK) deputiseVerb
(deputiz)- I deputize you to act for me while I'm away.
depute
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Verb
(deput)- Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust.
- There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
- Some persons, deputed by a meeting.
- The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.
