deputization
English
Noun
deputization (countable and uncountable, plural deputizations)
- 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.