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deputying

deputying is the present participle and gerund of deputy.

Meaning of deputy

Verb

deputy (third-person singular simple present deputies, present participle deputying, simple past and past participle deputied)

  1. (informal, nonstandard) to deputise

See all 8 meanings of deputy

Questions about deputying

What is deputying the present participle and gerund of?
Deputying is the present participle and gerund of deputy.

Words near deputying in the dictionary

  1. deputy chief constable
  2. deputy chief constables
  3. deputy director
  4. deputy first minister
  5. deputy first ministers
  6. deputying
  7. deputyship
  8. deputyships
  9. depyrimidation
  10. depyrimidination
  11. depyrimidinations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deputying (page history and authors); deputy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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