deputation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌdɛpjuːˈteɪʃən/
deputation
- The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
- The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.
- The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; a delegation.
- The general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
- 1850, George Long, France and Its Revolutions: A Pictorial History, 1789-1848 (page 29)
- A deputation came to the Hotel de Ville from the district of the Mathurins, where the people had assembled, appointed a president and other officers, and begun to make a list of the citizens who were able to bear arms.
- Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field.
- German: Abordnung
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