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発音

• Verb:
  • IPA: /dɪˈpjuːt/
  • 韻: -uːt
• Noun:
  • IPA: /ˈdɛ.pjuːt/
  • 韻: -uːt

動詞

depute (third-person singular simple present deputes, present participle deputing, simple past and past participle deputed)

1. (obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
2. To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate.
   • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 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), to appoint as deputy.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 15:3:

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

   • 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, 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:

     Some persons, deputed by a meeting.

   • 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian‎:

     Viewing the forces arrayed against him at the G20, President Vladimir Putin deputed Lavrov to attend the two-day event in his stead, and for a brief moment it appeared to have been too much.

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.

派生語

関連する語

名詞

depute (plural deputes)

1. (Scotland) A deputy.
   • 1774, George Dallas, A System of Stiles (page 99)

     […] discharging hereby the said sheriff and his deputes […]

派生語

• sheriff-depute

アナグラム

• teed up