deputy sheriff

1. 1.

   someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies

   Synonymsdeputy

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Questions about deputy sheriff

What does deputy sheriff mean?

deputy sheriff means "someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies".

What is another word for deputy sheriff?

Close synonyms include deputy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deputy sheriff a common word?

deputy sheriff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.