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What is the verb for deputable?

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depute
  1. (obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
  2. To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
  3. To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
  4. To appoint; to assign; to choose.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I have never wanted to depute the work to someone else as long as I was on the place myself.”
      “I depute John as the team leader for the upcoming project.”
deputize
  1. To make (someone) a deputy; to officially empower.
  2. To make or name as a substitute.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The mayor decided to deputize Sarah as the lead organizer for the event, recognizing her exceptional organizational skills.”
      “The post-holder is required to deputize for the manager in their absence.”
      “I'm now giving you full rights to deputize anyone that you feel fit enough to help you in whatever way they can.”
deputise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of deputize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He will report to the Editor in Chief, and will also deputise for him in his absence.”
      “He also proposed the appointment of deputy chief engineers who, though subordinate to the Chief Engineer, could deputise for him.”
      “He will chair five and deputise for the Prime Minister on seven of the 44 committees created yesterday.”
deputy
  1. (informal, nonstandard) to deputise
deputizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deputize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Deputy Secretary-General deputizes for the Secretary-General, and oversees the operations of the secretariat regarding the strategic, programmatic and managerial aspects.”
      “Before leaving on his new mission, Chen deputizes his assistant to carry on the investigation in Shanghai.”
deputises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deputise
deputes
deputised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of deputise
  2. Examples:
    1. “I grabbed the nearest three people I could find and deputised them into my department.”
      “His Majesty King Hamad deputised his personal representative Shaikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa to attend the event.”
      “The decision reportedly gives the deputised security personnel the right to file reports against students who commit crimes.”
deputized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of deputize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Not only does he become a strikebreaker, but he is later deputized as a law-enforcement official.”
      “Dozens of these deputized officials were deployed soon after the expanded judicial system became operational.”
      “Hundreds of employees were deputized as quality stewards, while engineers were ordered to focus on quality during the design phase.”
deputed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of depute
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It so happened that I had fallen sick, and therefore I deputed him to some places to perform ceremonies.”
      “As it is, more than ten Home Guards and traffic police have been deputed to manage traffic around the flyover.”
      “My newspaper, amongst the largest selling dailies in India, deputed me to accompany the team.”
deputied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of deputy
deputizing
  1. present participle of deputize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Robert and Kitty are deputizing Isaac to sling some mud at the man telling tales on Robert, and stop the story from spreading.”
      “He showed talent on the violin and spinet by the age of four, and by age 10 he was deputizing at the church organ.”
      “In the nineteen-seventies, after two accidents, Chihuly began deputizing glass-blowing to assistants.”
deputising
  1. present participle of deputise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Said to possess exceptional drive and extreme intelligence, Norton's ambitions were not satisfied and he set up a doctors' deputising service.”
      “The fact that I was there deputising for the Mayor is neither here or there.”
      “Publish rules establishing a system of deputising between Member States in third countries.”
deputing
  1. present participle of depute
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A first step towards strengthening this cooperation is by deputing youngsters for night patrolling to supplement the efforts of the police in preventing crime.”
      “These arrangements included relaying intelligence warnings of threats against her, providing some security measures as well as deputing a police officer to act as Ms. Bhutto's liaison with local authorities.”
deputying
  1. present participle of deputy
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