deputation

[ UK /dˌɛpjuːtˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a group of representatives or delegates
  2. authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
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How To Use deputation In A Sentence

  • 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. The Ruin of a Princess
  • He had been proud of the idea that he would be part of the deputation of miners that would march on from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street. THE WHITE DOVE
  • `There's already been a deputation here looking for me since I arrived. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
  • The managing director agreed to receive a deputation from the factory.
  • However, the colonially appointed Durrani sovereign's apparent benevolence on this point was in fact countervailed because in the same letter he also announced the deputation of a mirza and two subcontracted agents of Nur Muhammad to collect arat or export commission fees from all nomads carrying Afghan fruit to India. 50 Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • The managing director agreed to receive a deputation from the factory.
  • Bonaparte stayed long enough at Berlin to permit of the arrival of a deputation from the French Senate to congratulate him on his first triumphs. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • In the morning the minister received a deputation from the National Union of Farmers protesting about the government's plans to cut agricultural subsidies.
  • If people wanted something done, they went in a deputation to the minister, escorted by their local member.
  • Each of the nine deputations the committee heard criticised the council for springing the cuts on the groups by letter 17 days ago.
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