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/dˈɛpjəti/ /dˈɛpjuti/ Listen

noun

deputy n. (pl. deputies)

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc. "There was then (in the days of Jehoshaphat) no king in Edom; a deputy was king." "God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight." Note: Deputy is used in combination with the names of various executive officers, to denote an assistant empowered to act in their name; as, deputy collector, deputy marshal, deputy sheriff.

A member of the Chamber of Deputies. (France)

Chamber of Deputies, one of the two branches of the French legislative assembly; formerly called Corps Législatif. Its members, called deputies, are elected by the people voting in districts.

Synonyms: Substitute; representative; legate; delegate; envoy; agent; factor.

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"Deputy" Quotes from Famous Books

... the upper house, or Senate, was formed by the bishops, wojewodas (see note 26), castellans (see note 38), and ministers, while the lower house was composed of deputies elected by district diets (p. 303). A unanimous vote was required on all measures; more than this, any one deputy by his veto could dissolve the Diet, even in the last moments of its session, and undo all the work previously accomplished. This law of the liberum veto, and the elective nature of the royal office, offered countless opportunities for foreign nations to interfere in the affairs of the ...

— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz

... prayers—frankly admitted his error in his abrupt flight, and freely promised atonement as soon as he should be freed from his difficulties; an event which, in speaking to her, he doubted not. This duty over, his mind grew somewhat relieved, and, despatching a note by the jailer's deputy to the lawyer Pippin, he ...

— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

... that it is mad and preposterous to bring to the standard of justice and humanity the exercise of a dominion founded upon violence and terror. It may and must be true that Mr. Hastings has repeatedly offended against the rights and privileges of Asiatic government, if he was the faithful deputy of a power which could not maintain itself for an hour without trampling upon both. He may and must have offended against the laws of God and nature, if he was the faithful viceroy of an empire wrested ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... danger to Elizabeth's Government. It was its "bleeding ulcer." Lord Essex's great colonizing scheme, with his unscrupulous severity, had failed. Sir Henry Sidney, wise, firm, and wishing to be just, had tried his hand as Deputy for the third time in the thankless charge of keeping order; he, too, after a short gleam of peace, had failed also. For two years Ireland had been left to the local administration, totally unable to heal its wounds, or cope with its disorders. ...

— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church

... the town about their ears, but that still all must be essayed to conciliate us. The Caimacan himself, the great man who had given rise to the remonstrance on our part, had taken himself off, and left his deputy in command. This was professedly to look after some troops that he was recruiting in the neighbourhood, but we gave him the credit of practising a dodge to get out of the way of an awkward business. A striking peculiarity of the business ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 • Various

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