0 a person who is given the power to do something instead of another person, or the person whose rank is immediately below that of the leader of an organization:
1 a person who is given the power to act instead of, or to help do the work of, another person:
2 a person whose rank is immediately below that of the head of an organization or a department, and who is in charge when the head is not there:
She has been promoted from deputy manager to senior manager.
The party leader is an extreme left-winger, but her deputy is more moderate in her views.
The mayor and her deputy locked horns over plans for the new road.
She's the nominal head of our college - the real work is done by her deputy.
The contest for deputy leadership of the party is gathering speed.
The appointment of deputies, however, seems not to have made the system as a whole significantly more orderly.
The efforts of deputies to consult the population are noted and appreciated, and the reputations of entrepreneurial deputies spread outside their constituencies.
Strengthening this force was seen as undermining the president's grip on power and consolidating that of his deputy defence minister.
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sustituto, -a, sustituto/uta [masculine-feminine]…
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adjoint/-ointe [masculine-feminine], adjoint/-ointe, délégué/-ée…
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