What is "deputize"

Usage examples of "deputize".

He deputized Milo to speak to Major - de Coverley for him and stormed about impatiently as he waited for the tall executive officer to return.

A commander from the office of the Director of Minesweeping was deputizing for his chief, and Walsingham had managed to persuade a lieutenant-commander from the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division of the Admiralty to delay his date with an actress.

The sheriff would not deputize Mister Watson, so Mister Watson deputized himself.

He also deputized a fellow Dominican with expertise in mathematics to scrutinize the text and report back to him.

Galileo expected his housekeeper and servant boy, La Piera and Giuseppe, to tend their chores as usual, and he deputized Suor Maria Celeste to assume executive control, from inside the convent, of all his personal and household affairs.

Abercrombie was chalking a pentagram on the floor while a sputtering Malzius had been deputized to sterilize a pocket knife with match.

We have been deputized by House Harakamian to arrest you for the theft of the chrysoberyls from the Moon of Opportunity.

You ain't residents, so I don't know's I can deputize you, but Herb 'n' me could use a coupla guys with us.

One evening, when the weary constructors had finally dragged themselves off to bed, the components of the apparatus they had been working on were quickly transported by unmarked balloon to police headquarters and assembled by eighteen of the finest cyberneticians in the land, who had been deputized and duly sworn in for that very purpose, whereupon a gray tin mouse ran out from under their hands, blowing soap bubbles and dropping a thin trail of chalk dust from under its tail, which spelled, as it danced this way and that across the table, WHAT, DON'T YOU LOVE US ANYMORE?

Even if he deputizes every man in Syrtis he only has maybe a hundred to a hundred and fifty guns.

Even if he deputizes every man in Syrtis he only has maybe a hundred and fifty guns.

But Grimm, who believes that the uniformed white American is superior to all other men, convinces many of the Legionnaires to join him, and the sheriff reluctantly deputizes Grimm.

He ran the four hundred yards to the house, saw that Andrew Borden was dead, and deputized a passer-by, Charles Sawyer, to stand guard while he went back to the stationhouse for assistance.

There we stood, this stack of shabby-looking, retread toruses, deputized with a noble job-explaining to envoys of six races the new order of life on this world.

I blocked off the motel parking lot with sawhorses and deputized a couple of unemployed chicken processors to fend off the tourists for the rest of the day.