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deputize for someone
collocation
(UK usuallydeputise for someone)
to do someone's job or take their place when they cannot do it themselves:
I'm deputizing for the director during his absence.
He deputised admirably for the injured captain.
See
deputize
He declared he had no intention of deputising for a junior colleague.
The Assistant Dean deputizes for the Dean as and when necessary.
She got a job for one term deputising for a lecturer on maternity leave.
Required to deputize for the literary editor (who had flu) and interview the notorious writer, she wrote a very funny account of their meeting.
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