deputies
- 1Plural of deputy.
The mayor's deputies handled the negotiations while she was abroad.
Newly sworn deputies reported for duty at the county jail.
Note
A regular spelling change makes this plural: after a consonant, the final y becomes -ies, as in parties and bodies. The plural covers every kind of deputy, including officers who stand in for someone, the historical mine workers who set props and cleared gas, and members of parliament in several countries. It names the French Chamber of Deputies, and in Ireland it refers to members of Dáil Éireann, where Deputy, often capitalized, serves as a title.
deputies is a form of deputy
deputy, noun: A person appointed to act as a substitute for others, empowered to act in their name or on their behalf. Full entry
- Forms
- deputydeputies plural
- Spelling
- deputy → deputies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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