All deputy synonyms

noun deputy

• assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
• commissioner — A commissioner is an important official in a government department or other organization.
• representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
• aide — An aide is an assistant to someone who has an important job, especially in government or in the armed forces.
• delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
• appointee — An appointee is someone who has been chosen for a particular job or position of responsibility.
• minister — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
• ambassador — An ambassador is an important official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country's interests there.
• sub — a submarine.
• surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
• regent — a person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
• lieutenant — Military. first lieutenant. second lieutenant.
• proxy — the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another.
• factor — Christmas factor.
• subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
• legate — an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
• backup — Backup consists of extra equipment, resources, or people that you can get help or support from if necessary.
• substitute — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
• replacement — the act of replacing.
• councilor — A councilor is a member of a local council.
• dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.