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deputization

deputization noun: the process of becoming a deputy.

Noun

deputization (countable and uncountable, plural deputizations)

  1. The process of becoming a deputy.
    • 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
    • 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 Affairs

Forms of deputization

pluraldeputizations
alternative formdeputisation

Questions about deputization

What does deputization mean?
Deputization means the process of becoming a deputy.
What part of speech is deputization?
Deputization is a noun.
What is the plural of deputization?
The plural of deputization is deputizations.

Words near deputization in the dictionary

  1. deputise
  2. deputised
  3. deputises
  4. deputising
  5. deputive
  6. deputization
  7. deputizations
  8. deputize
  9. deputized
  10. deputizer
  11. deputizers

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