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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deputy \Dep"u*ty\, n.; pl {Deputies}. [F. d['e]put['e], fr LL
deputatus See {Depute}.]
1. 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. --1 Kings
xxii. 47.
God's substitute, His deputy anointed in His sight.
--Shak.
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.
2. A member of the Chamber of Deputies. [France]
{Chamber of Deputies}, one of the two branches of the French
legislative assembly; -- formerly called {Corps
L['e]gislatif}. Its members, called deputies, are elected
by the people voting in districts.
Syn: Substitute; representative; legate; delegate; envoy;
agent; factor.
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