# deputy
## English
### Alternative forms

* deputee (archaic)

### Etymology

From French député, from Late Latin deputatus (“appointed”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈdɛpjəti/
* (US) IPA: /ˈdɛpjəti/, /ˈdɛpəti/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

deputy (plural deputies)
* One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office.
    Synonyms: lieutenant, representative, delegate, vice, vicegerent
    the deputy of a prince
    The deputy sheriff was promoted after his senior retired.
    As the deputy store manager, he is able to fire staff.
* (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
* (government) The name for a member of parliament in some countries.
    The State Duma comprises 450 deputies.
** A member of the French National Assembly.
** (historical) A member of the French Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
** (Ireland, often capitalized) A member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann.
    Eamon Ryan is a deputy in the Dáil.
    At today's meeting, Deputy Ryan will speak on local issues.
* (US) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.
    The sheriff's deputies took the suspect into custody.
    Deputy Jones was promoted to corporal today.

#### Usage notes

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. In the British coal mining industry, the word referred to as a deputy overman, which was roughly akin to a foreman in other industries.

#### Synonyms

* substitute
* representative
* legate
* delegate
* envoy
* agent
* See also Thesaurus:deputy

#### Hyponyms

* vice admiral
* vice director
* vicegerent
* vice president

#### Derived terms

* confused deputy
* deputise, deputize
* deputy chief constable
* deputy first minister
* deputy prime minister
* deputyship
* Eurodeputy

#### Translations

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#### See also

* vice-

### Verb

deputy (third-person singular simple present deputies, present participle deputying, simple past and past participle deputied)
* (informal, nonstandard) to deputise

#### Further reading

* “deputy”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* “deputy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “deputy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “deputy”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
* “deputy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “deputy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “deputy” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.