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deputy
[ dep-yuh-tee ]
noun
- a person appointed or authorized to act as a substitute for another or others.
Synonyms: proxy, emissary, envoy, surrogate, representative, agent
- a person appointed or elected as assistant to a public official, serving as successor in the event of a vacancy.
- a person representing a constituency in certain legislative bodies.
adjective
- appointed, elected, or serving as an assistant or second-in-command.
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Other Words From
- depu·ty·ship noun
- sub·depu·ty noun plural subdeputies
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of deputy1
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Example Sentences
Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.
Coincidently, both he and the deputy shadow governor are Korengalis and Zalwar Khan knows them well.
One is Dmitry Rogozin, the former ambassador to NATO and current deputy prime minister.
Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister, attacked the Conservatives for their predictable response to the report.
Ibrahim made clear to Deputy Dennis Meyer that his daughter was a respectful and dutiful girl of Sudanese extraction.
The door was opened; and the deputy stood back, while the son of the Duke entered the vestibule of the prison.
Indeed, he thought the Englishman was some important official and took Chumru for his native deputy.
The district headman is the deputy of the tribal ward headman to whom he is immediately responsible.
After a preliminary defeat he was elected deputy at the time when Sallenauve sent in his resignation, in 1841.
He was a deputy sitting on the right and upholding the Royalist platform of Divine Right.
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