- a person who is the next most important person below a business manager, a head of a school, a political leader, etc. and who does that person’s job when they are away
- I'm acting as deputy till the manager returns.
- She was appointed deputy head of the school.
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationc1, Businessc1- A new deputy has not yet been appointed.
- She is acting as deputy to the chairman of the board.
- a former deputy chairman of the Democratic Party
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- acting
- former
- chief
- …
- appoint (somebody as)
- act as
- chair
- chairman
- chief
- …
- deputy to
- the name for a member of parliament in some countries
- 23 women were among the 77 deputies elected.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- parliamentary
- opposition
- right-wing
- …
- elect
- (in the US) a police officer who helps the sheriff of an areaTopics Law and justicec2
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French depute, from late Latin deputatus, past participle of deputare ‘consider to be, assign’, from de- ‘away’ + putare ‘consider’.
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