Synonyms of the word

deputy

• n. One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf;…
• n. (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas,…
• n. (France): A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
• n. (Ireland): a member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann. (Normally capitalised in…
• v. (informal, nonstandard) to deputise.

agent

• n. One who exerts power, or has the power to act.
• n. One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted…
• n. A person who looks for work for another person.
• n. Someone who works for an intelligence agency.
• n. An active power or cause or substance; something which has the power to produce an effect.
• n. (computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and…
• n. (grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy"…

assistant

• adj. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
• adj. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
• n. A person who assists or helps someone else.
• n. (Britain) Sales assistant.
• n. A software tool that provides assistance in some task.

help

• n. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
• n. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
• n. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
• n. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation…
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social…
• v. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
• v. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
• v. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive…
• interj. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance.

helper

• n. One who helps; an aide.
• n. (Singapore) A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family, or in a market.

lawman

• n. (law, historical) A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.
• n. (law, historical) One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac…
• n. (law, Orkney and Shetland) The presiding justice of the supreme court.
• n. (rare) A man of the law: a lawyer.
• n. (informal) An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.

legislator

• n. Someone who creates or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body.

lieutenant

• n. (military) The lowest commissioned officer rank or ranks in many military forces.
• n. A person who executes the plans and directives of another.
• n. The second-in-command of a group.
• adj. A military grade that is junior to the grade the adjective modifies: lieutenant colonel, lieutenant general,…

supporter

• n. A person who gives support to someone or something.
• n. Something that supports another thing.

surrogate

• n. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
• n. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
• n. (US law): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and interstate…
• n. A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object…
• n. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters…
• adj. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.