deputation (n.)

• accession
• agency
• anointing
• anointment
• appointment
• arrogation
• assignment
• assumption
• authority
• authorization
• brevet
• care
• change
• charge
• commission
• commissioning
• commitment
• committee
• commutation
• consecration
• consignment
• coronation
• cure
• delegation
• devolution
• devolvement
• displacement
• election
• embassy
• empowerment
• errand
• exchange
• jurisdiction
• legation
• license
• lieutenancy
• mandate
• mission
• office
• proxy
• purview
• regency
• replacement
• representation
• responsibility
• seizure
• subcommittee
• subrogation
• substitution
• succession
• supersedure
• supersession
• supplanting
• switch
• task
• trust
• trusteeship
• usurpation
• warrant