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Deputy synonyms and antonyms

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lieutenant
(Military, UK) A naval officer in the Royal Navy who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
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bailiff
(UK) The steward or overseer of an estate.
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delegate (related)
An elected or appointed representative of a US territory in the House of Representatives who is entitled to speak but not vote.
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second
A second helping of something to eat
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manager (antonym)
One who manages affairs or expenditures, as of a household, a client (as an entertainer or athlete), an athletic team, etc.
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adjutant
(Mil.) A staff officer who serves as an administrative assistant to the commanding officer
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agent (related)
An agent is defined as someone or something that makes something happen.
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aide
The definition of an aide is a person who does certain things for another person that makes that person's job easier or more efficient.
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appointee
(Law) One to whom a power of appointment of property is granted.
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assistant
Assistant means anything that helps something else.
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hatchet-man
Any person assigned by another to carry out disagreeable or unscrupulous tasks
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minister
A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
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representative
One that serves as a delegate or agent for another.
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stand-in
A person of similar size and shape to an actor that "stands-in" for the actor during the lengthy process of setting up a shot, who, unlike a double, does not appear in the film.
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substitute
(Gram.) Any word or word group, as a pronoun, the verb to do, etc., used in place of another word or words (Ex.: did for shouted in “she shouted, and he did, too”)
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surrogate
One that takes the place of another; a substitute.
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vicar
(R.C.Ch.) A church officer acting as a deputy of a bishop
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auxiliary
A member of a foreign body of troops serving a country in war.
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coadjutor
(Ecclesiastical) A subordinate bishop designated as an assistant and usually as a successor to the bishop of a given diocese.
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helper
One who helps; an aide.
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help (related)
One that helps:
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deputy sheriff
someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies
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depute (related)
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vice-chairman (related)
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chief (related)
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superintendent (related)
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chairman (related)
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appoint (related)
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newly-appointed (related)
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divisional (related)
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vice-president (related)
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senior (related)
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vice (related)
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governor (related)
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proxy
One who receives the authority to speak for or act for another. A proxy is often allowed to vote in place of a corporation’s stockholder(s) at a periodic meeting.
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vicegerent
A person appointed by another, esp. by a ruler, to exercise the latter's power and authority; deputy
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vice-chair (related)
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Deputy Sentence Examples

  • He'd recently employed a deputy who was doing a top notch job.

  • In 1820 he was elected as a deputy to the cantonal council, and was a member of the extraordinary diet of 1832.

  • In New York state there is still a court called the surrogates court, surrogate being the regular name for a deputy ecclesiastical judge.

  • During the interim we learned the sad news of the death of the Alabama Deputy Sheriff who was shot multiple times after stopping the kidnapper of eight year old Jennifer Morley.

  • Is Brenda Washington's murder being investigated as tied to the death of Rupert Youngblood in California and the deputy sheriff in Alabama?

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