deputize

Another has Mubarak deputize his vice president and step down in all but name.

The Sheriff denied that he had promised to deputize the Pinkertons.

Now I deny that Congress can deputize its legislative powers.

A good manager, though, can't simply go and deputize every detail of his job.

You may safely deputize only so long as, by so doing, you leave yourself free for the more important, more profitable decisions.

Miss Pierson, I deputize you to gather up the stray sunbeams for me that memory may have a regal crown to wear when I am far away.