Deputy: alternatives and connections

Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

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Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

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To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.

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A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.

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One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

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Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.

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To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.

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To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.

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One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else

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One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else

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An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.

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A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

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