Definition: 1. Someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies. 2. An assistant with power to act when his superior is absent. 3. A member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France). 4. A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others.
Use 'deputy' in a sentence:
1. "Bell's deputy asks him."
2. Liz O'Donnell became Deputy Leader and Tom Parlon became Party President.
3. A lot of the chanting was in support of the deputy prime minister.
4. The president of the company appointed a deputy to attend the meeting.
5. The local deputy chief executive accompanied Foucher to conduct further talks with the workers.
6. Only the deputy ambassador remains in Egypt.
7. His deputy Roy Hattersley, elected as part of the dream ticket to succeed Michael Foot in 1983, will also resign.
8. We elected two deputies among us.
9. "No-one stopped, no matter how tired they were," says Radhakrishnan's deputy.
10. The settlements outside the blocks would wither and die, says Silvan Shalom, a Likud deputy prime minister and longtime foe of the prime minister.
11. At large: Ayman al Zawahiri, deputy.
12. The deputies discussed and passed the resolution.
13. The president appealed to deputies to approve the plan quickly.
14. She is the Deputy headmistress of the school.
15. She was so disloyal to her deputy she made his position untenable.
16. One after another the deputies took their seats.
17. My brother will act as a deputy for me while I am away.
18. Randall Schriver is a former deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.
19. Some book also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others.
20. I decided to put in for a job as deputy secretary.
21. He Youlin, an NPC deputy and former principal of Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School in Guangdong province.
22. Robyn asked the deputy on duty if she could speak with Sheriff Adkins.
23. He was nominally Deputy Prime Minister, certainly, but his influence was clearly on the wane.
24. The deputy chief inspector rang me up and said, 'Miss Smith, you know you are due for a move?'
25. The space station's deputy program manager, Kirk Shireman, said the team did an outstanding job coping with what he called "a major malfunction."
26. He plans to delegate more authority to his deputies.
27. "More information and technology centres will be built so that basic data and big data can be improved, and technologies like 5G and the BeiDou Satellite Navigation System can be used in the field," said Han Fujun, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Information Center of MARA.
28. The deputy prime minister is suffering.
29. There's no doubt Mr Putin's speech caught the mood of most deputies.
30. Bell's deputy asks him.
31. His brother was acting as his deputy in America.
32. Miroslaw was the deputy finance minister in charge of taxation.
33. Is this fair? Well, I put that question today to Deputy Counsel Craig Gillen.
34. The deputy leader is cautious about loosening the links with the unions.
35. A promotion to deputy inspector Seedman had been expecting was delayed.
36. The deputy mayor of the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret and a close friend of Sarkozy's told RTL radio this thing.
37. The Deputy Commander has condemned this weekend's protest as deliberate provocation.
38. Voters will choose fifty of the seventy five deputies. The Emir will nominate the rest.
39. A rather important one, as a matter of fact, deputy director of the international finance corporation.
40. Zhang Boli, NPC deputy and president of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.
41. According to Fiona Qian, the firm's deputy manager, the high cost of doing this means some refineries are still dumping toxic waste in landfills.
42. By convention the deputy leader was always a woman.
43. Deputies to the People's Congresses have the right to address inquiries to state organs.
44. Signor Amato's government has only a 16-seat majority in the Chamber of Deputies.
45. He has won over a significant number of the left-wing deputies.
46. I'm acting as deputy till the manager returns.
47. The proposals have been well received by many deputies.
48. They opposed her nomination to the post of Deputy Director.
49. Who has she designated her deputy?
50. Who has she designated (as) her deputy?
51. The deputy airport manager said there was no apparent explanation for the crash.
