deputation

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The spokesman of the deputation was a gaunt and haggard-looking man.

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  1. noun A person or group appointed to represent another or others; a delegation.
  2. noun The act of deputing.
  3. noun The state of being deputed.

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  • Toulan perished in the last executions Their Majesties, shut up in the Tower for three months, had so far seen none but the municipal officers, when, on the 1st of November, a deputation from the National Convention was announced to them. —  Ruin of a Princess
  • We are tempted to believe that the deputation was a false deputation, each of whom probably had his little share, so that in this way there might be an appearance of justice. —  Life of Cicero
  • Finally, a deputation was appointed by the Estates to go over to Ghent and present a Remonstrance to their impatient sovereign beggar. —  Charles the Bold
  • The Poles were still uncertain as to the ultimate fate which the Emperor reserved for their country; but a future bright with hope shone before their eyes, until these visions were rudely dispelled by the Emperor's reply to the deputation from the Polish confederation established at Warsaw. —  The Private Life of Napoleon, V9
  • Shall I begin Yes, Helen She held the paper nearer and read: "'A Paris journal publishes a despatch through l'agence Havas which declares that a deputation from the Spanish Government has left Madrid for Berlin to offer the crown of Spain to Leopold von Hohenzollern What!" —  Lorraine A romance
 

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  1. from Middle English deputation = Dutch deputatie = G. Danish Swedish deputation, from French députation = Spanish diputacion = Portuguese deputação = Italian deputazione, from Middle Latin as if *deputatio(n-), from deputare, past participle deputatus, select, appoint: see depute.
 

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/dɛpjuˈteɪʃən/
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