deputy (n.)

• acolyte
• adjutant
• administrator
• advocate
• agent
• aid
• aide
• aide-de-camp
• aider
• alternate
• alternative
• ambassador
• analogy
• appointee
• assignee
• assistant
• attendant
• attorney
• auxiliary
• backup
• bailiff
• barrister
• beadle
• beagle
• candidate
• captain
• change
• changeling
• coadjutor
• commissioner
• comparison
• conductor
• connection
• constable
• copy
• counsel
• counselor
• counselor-at-law
• counterfeit
• delegate
• detective
• director
• double
• dummy
• emissary
• envoy
• equal
• equivalent
• ersatz
• exchange
• factor
• fake
• fed
• federal
• fill-in
• front
• gendarme
• ghost
• ghostwriter
• go-between
• governor
• help
• helper
• helpmate
• helpmeet
• imitation
• impresario
• inspector
• intercessor
• intermediary
• intermediate
• intermediator
• intermedium
• internuncio
• lawyer
• legate
• licensee
• lieutenant
• makeshift
• manager
• marshal
• mediator
• medium
• metaphor
• metonymy
• middleman
• minister
• mouthpiece
• narc
• negotiant
• negotiator
• negotiatress
• negotiatrix
• nominee
• officer
• ombudsman
• operative
• paraprofessional
• patrolman
• personnel
• phony
• pleader
• policeman
• policewoman
• proctor
• procurator
• producer
• proxy
• rector
• reeve
• relief
• replacement
• representative
• reserve
• reserves
• ringer
• roundsman
• second
• secondary
• sergeant
• servant
• sheriff
• sign
• solicitor
• spokesman
• spokesperson
• spokeswoman
• stand-in
• sub
• substitute
• substitution
• succedaneum
• supercargo
• superintendent
• supplanter
• surrogate
• symbol
• synecdoche
• tipstaff
• token
• trooper
• understudy
• vicar
• vice-regent