deputation

Other forms of deputation

plural

deputations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deputation

What does deputation mean?

deputation means "a group of representatives or delegates". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deputation?

deputation has 5 syllables and divides as de-pu-ta-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for deputation?

Close synonyms include commission, delegation, delegacy, mission, delegating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deputation a common word?

deputation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.