Usually means: Authorize someone to perform duties.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word deputize:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. deputize: Merriam-Webster
  2. deputize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deputize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deputize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deputize: Vocabulary.com
  6. deputize: Wordnik
  7. deputize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deputize: Wiktionary
  9. deputize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deputize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deputize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deputize: Dictionary.com
  13. Deputize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. deputize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. deputize: Rhymezone
  16. deputize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. deputize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. deputize: FreeDictionary.org
  19. deputize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. deputize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. deputize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. deputize: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. deputize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deputize: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deputize: Idioms

(Note: See deputization as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To officially empower, authorize, pronounce, and establish (someone) to be a deputy.
verb:  (transitive) to officially empower and authorize (someone) to act as a substitute in one's role or office
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a substitute for a person in their role or office

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