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DEPUTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An assistant with power to act when his superior is absent
Synonyms:
deputy; lieutenant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("deputy" is a kind of...):
assistant; help; helper; supporter (a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deputy"):
second-in-command (someone who relieves a commander)
vicar-general ((Roman Catholic Church) an administrative deputy who assists a bishop)
vice-regent (a regent's deputy)
Derivation:
deputise (appoint as a substitute)
deputise (act as a substitute)
deputize (appoint as a substitute)
deputize (act as a substitute)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies
Synonyms:
deputy; deputy sheriff
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("deputy" is a kind of...):
law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)
Derivation:
deputise (appoint as a substitute)
deputise (act as a substitute)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
Synonyms:
deputy; surrogate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("deputy" is a kind of...):
agent (a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deputy"):
vicegerent (someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy)
Derivation:
deputise (appoint as a substitute)
deputise (act as a substitute)
deputize (appoint as a substitute)
deputize (act as a substitute)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("deputy" is a kind of...):
legislator (someone who makes or enacts laws)
Domain region:
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
Context examples:
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man incapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They are never suffered to converse with servants, but go together in smaller or greater numbers to take their diversions, and always in the presence of a professor, or one of his deputies; whereby they avoid those early bad impressions of folly and vice, to which our children are subject.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but always in the presence of a professor or deputy, till they come to dress themselves, which is at five years old.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I told him, “that in the kingdom of Tribnia, by the natives called Langdon, where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies. The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vigour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
