• Verb:
  • IPA: /dɪ.ˈpjuːt/
• Noun:
  • IPA: /ˈdɛ.pjuːt/

depute (deputes, present participle deputing; 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 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), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 2 Samuel 15:3 ↗:

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

   • 1881, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,_Ninth_Edition/Johnson,_Samuel Samuel Johnson]”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition:

     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.

depute (plural deputes)

1. (Scotland) deputy