Deputy and Successor

Deputy

Deputy noun - A person who acts or does business for another.

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Successor and deputy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Successor" instead a noun "Deputy".

Successor noun - A person who follows next in order.

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Deputy and successor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Deputy" instead a noun "Successor".

old	old deputy	old successor
good	good deputy	good successor
female	female deputy	female successor
current	current deputy	current successor
Other adjectives: chosen, inexperienced, young, new, final, temporary, previous.

Kane's deputy refuses to help him unless Kane agrees to the deputy becoming his successor.

Source: Divided We Fall
In Warrior Cats, Brokenstar killed his father in order to become leader - as deputy, he was Raggedstar's successor.

Source: Patricide
The guidebook Code of the Clans explains how this setup came to be: The deputy-becomes-leader rule started after there was a case where a leader selected his son as his successor.

Source: Succession Crisis

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