Associations to the word «Deputise»

Wiktionary

DEPUTISE, verb. Non-Oxford British spelling standard spelling of deputize.

Dictionary definition

DEPUTISE, verb. Act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold".
DEPUTISE, verb. Appoint as a substitute.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope