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deputies

/dep-yuh-tee/US // ˈdɛp yə ti //UK // (ˈdɛpjʊtɪ) //

副手,副手们,代表们,议员

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dep·u·ties.

    • : a person appointed or authorized to act as a substitute for another or others.
    • : deputy sheriff.
    • : a person appointed or elected as assistant to a public official, serving as successor in the event of a vacancy.
    • : a person representing a constituency in certain legislative bodies.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : appointed, elected, or serving as an assistant or second-in-command.

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Examples

  • The Sheriff’s deputy ordered her to sign a ticket containing a promise to appear in court several months later.

  • The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department investigated and not only cleared Graham of battery — deputies went on to charge the woman with filing a false police report.

  • Erik Caldwell, the city’s deputy chief operating officer, followed up and here’s a summary.

  • Joe Levanthal, a Republican and former ethics commissioner, and Marni von Wilpert, a Democrat and deputy city attorney, advanced through the March primary.

  • Been is New York City’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development.

  • Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.

  • Coincidently, both he and the deputy shadow governor are Korengalis and Zalwar Khan knows them well.

  • One is Dmitry Rogozin, the former ambassador to NATO and current deputy prime minister.

  • Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister, attacked the Conservatives for their predictable response to the report.

  • Ibrahim made clear to Deputy Dennis Meyer that his daughter was a respectful and dutiful girl of Sudanese extraction.

  • The door was opened; and the deputy stood back, while the son of the Duke entered the vestibule of the prison.

  • Indeed, he thought the Englishman was some important official and took Chumru for his native deputy.

  • The district headman is the deputy of the tribal ward headman to whom he is immediately responsible.

  • After a preliminary defeat he was elected deputy at the time when Sallenauve sent in his resignation, in 1841.

  • He was a deputy sitting on the right and upholding the Royalist platform of Divine Right.