Meanings
noundeputization (countable and uncountable, plural deputizations)
plural deputizations · alternative deputisation
- countableuncountableThe process of becoming a deputy.
The sheriff departments gave fourteen deputizations to the Indian police on ten reservations.
1966, Annual Report of the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs to the Governor of Arizona, Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs1 more example
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.
1922, Herbert Watson, The Knack of Managing: System's New Method of Training Men to Manage
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