depute
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
transfer power to someone
Types & categories
- assign hypernym
Related & opposite
- delegacy derivation
- relegation derivation
- delegation derivation
- delegate derivation
Sense 2 verb
appoint as a substitute
Types & categories
- appoint hypernym
Related & opposite
- relegation derivation
- deputy derivation
- deputy derivation
- surrogate derivation
Sense 3 verb
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- appointment derivation
- delegacy derivation
- assignment derivation
- relegation derivation
- delegation derivation
- delegate derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | delegacy |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | relegation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | delegation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | delegate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | assign |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | relegation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | deputy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | deputy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | surrogate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | appoint |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | appointment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | delegacy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | assignment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | relegation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | delegation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | delegate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | appoint |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | mandate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cast |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | post |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cast |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | devolve |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | task |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | place |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | regiment |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | transfer |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | delegate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | mandate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | elevate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | demote |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | place |