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deputy Noun

— A deputy is somebody one level down from another person. The deputy helps the other person or does that person's job sometimes. The sheriff posted a deputy to stay until they could get a better look in the morning. He was Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz.

deputy

— noun someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies — noun an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent — noun a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others — noun a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)

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representative substitute delegate assistant agent proxy surrogate alternate vice- lieutenant subordinate congressman attorney vicegerent spokesman replacement procurator member of parliament deputy sheriff associate upholder supplementary proponent locum-tenens locum tenens helper exponent congresswoman believer apprentice ambassador advocate acting Member of Parliament yeoman voice vice-regent vice gerent vicarious vicar temporary successor subjoint sub- stopgap stand-in spokeswoman secondary second in command second helping

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surrogate

Topics deputy topics

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Social behavior Government Government functions

Politics

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politician official senator member of parliament congressman councilor deputy dictator diplomat governor legislator

Examples deputy examples

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Simple sentences

He will be my deputy while I am away.

Tom is deputy chairman of the Berlin Association of Beekeepers.

I'm your deputy.

Tom Jackson is the deputy director.

Movie subtitles

Deputy-commander?

Karl Victor V. Sendlingen, the highly esteemed and much belover president of his home town. returns from a prolonged absence and is welcomed at the station by Vice-president Werner. who was served as deputy in his absence.

Its all right son. My deputy just gone down there with all the men we need.

Where's that special deputy list I made out?

And I need a deputy.

My dear, I've been promoted to director's deputy.

I'm going abroad tomorrow and named him my deputy.

I don't mean that your brother doesn't dress well, but as my deputy, you see.

When I was Destry's deputy, I was good with guns.

I was Tom Destry's deputy, wasn't I?

If you need any help, I'll be your deputy.

No need to bother. I want a deputy like I was when Destry was my boss.

And I'm sendin' for him to be my deputy. And when he gets here. Destry will ride again.

You know, you got some pretty peculiar ideas for a deputy sheriff.

Deputy-commander? Hm?

I'm the Deputy Director of this prison.

A message from the Deputy Director.

I tell the Deputy Director who deserves to work and who doesn't.

You should have been proud to have been his deputy!

But I'll have to leave a deputy.

The Sheriff left a deputy to watch you.

I want ya all to meet my new deputy, Thomas Jefferson Destry.

Deputy stationmaster when there isn't a stationmaster which is often.

When I was Destry's deputy, I was good with guns. I was equal to any emergency.

We're all with ya, Sheriff. - If you need any help, I'll be your deputy.

I want a deputy like I was when Destry was my boss.

And I'm sendin' for him to be my deputy.

Mine's collecting deputy sheriff's guns.

Whenever I meet a new deputy, I always ask him for his gun.

Folks, seems like we got a deputy that knows what's good for him.

We was just havin' a little fun, Deputy.

Start in with that watery-eyed sheriff. and that gun-shy, lady-fingered deputy of his.

Boris is gonna make a very good second deputy. Sure!

News and current affairs

Cherkesov's deputy remains in prison. Most believe that Putin is unable to intervene in his defense.

Andrei Kozlov, the deputy governor of Russia's central bank who was leading a campaign against financial fraud, was assassinated on September 14.

The editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief were sacked, but the open questioning of the legitimacy of the government's authority to regulate journalism is bound to have a profound impact.

This conference has grown to be a major international event for government monetary policymakers, with governors or deputy governors of 34 central banks attending this year.

In 1960 he was my deputy when I was a leader of the Swedish Liberal Youth organization.

Nemat Shafik, a deputy governor of the Bank of England, tried to position herself between these opposing positions.

Stanley Fischer's looming departure as the IMF's first deputy managing director marks the end of an era.

And the new European Commission looks rather strong, given that more than 20 of its 28 members previously served as prime ministers, deputy prime ministers, or ministers.

Examining the pretentious homes so tastelessly decorated, I asked who owned them and was told that one house was that of a deputy mayor of Moscow, another housed a famous singer, another the son of the Moscow prosecutor.

Although Mubarak and his interior (security) minister, Habib al-Adly, were handed life sentences at the conclusion of their trials, the generals who ran Egypt's apparatus of repression as deputy interior ministers were acquitted.

The European Central Bank could also, perhaps, be involved, nominating the deputy of the eurozone executive director at the Fund.

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Indonesia, said that the US must bring new seriousness to helping Indonesia in its quest to secure a stable democracy and prosperous economy.

Bernard Kouchner, a Socialist, is Minister for Foreign Affairs, having formerly been a Socialist Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Minister of Health.

His deputy, Alfonso Portillo, won the presidency in 1999.

Cherkesov's deputy remains in prison.

Marco himself was elected deputy on the Socialist ticket, but he defected when the party denied him the chance to contest Frei's nomination in a primary.

For example, Zhang Guangqin, Deputy Director of the Chinese State Commission for Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense, said in 2005 that the Varyag was not being modified for military use.

Speakers included Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

The labor ministry went to Khaled al-Azhary, a Brother who was deputy head of the Workers Union and a victim of police brutality in 2010.

Hatem Saleh, the deputy chairman of the Civilization Party, which joined the Muslim Brotherhood's electoral coalition in the last parliamentary election, was named Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade.

Finally, Ahmed Mekki, the former deputy head of the Court of Cassation, Egypt's highest appeals court, will lead the justice ministry, which is in need of real change.

To be sure, the authorities have suffered some defections, with the most significant coming soon after the violence in Homs reached its peak, when the deputy energy minister resigned and joined the opposition.

As a former finance minister, deputy prime minister, and the product of a grass-roots civil-society movement, Prime Minister Kan has his work cut out for him, particularly as it is rumored that Ozawa intends to topple him in the autumn.

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