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deputy

Roget category 759

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#759. Deputy

noun

deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, badli†, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary.
regent, viceregent†, vizier, minister, vicar — premier etc. (director) 694 — chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul, proconsul — viceroy etc. (governor) 745 — commissioner etc. 758 — Tsung-li Yamen, Wai Wu Pu — plenipotentiary, alter ego.
team, eight, eleven — champion.

verb

be deputy etc. n. — stand for, appear for, hold a brief for, answer for — represent — stand in the shoes of, walk in the shoes of — stand in the stead of.
ablegate†, accredit.

adjective

acting, vice, vice regal — accredited to.

adverb

in behalf of.

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