Locum tenens: alternatives and connections

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity;…

(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "acce…

One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a depu…

A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople.

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.

The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

of Deputy

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

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieuten…

A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteri…

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.

The sacred secretary or recorder sent by each state belonging to the Amphictyonic Council, along with the deputy or minister.

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern da…