deputeとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• Verb:
  • IPA^(key): /dɪ.ˈpjuːt/
    • 韻: -uːt
  • Noun:
    • IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.pjuːt/
    • 韻: -uːt

動詞

depute (三人称単数 現在形 deputes, 現在分詞 deputing, 過去形および過去分詞形 deputed)

1. (obsolete) to assign (someone または something) to or for something
2. to delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate
   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 229:

     Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust.

3. to deputize (someone), appoint as deputy
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Samuel 15:3:

     There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

   • 1856 December​, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:

     Some persons, deputed by a meeting.

4. to appoint; to assign; to choose
   • c. 1675, Isaac Barrow, The Duty of Thanksgiving

     The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.

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