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An example use of deputy in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… old child the deputy chief medical …”
Deputy is a person who is in charge of a particular area or department.
the word deputy occurs in english on average 40.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that deputy can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;