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What does deputise mean?

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Verb
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of deputize.
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Randiv, 26, will be available to deputise for Muralitharan should the 39-year-old not be fit to play.
Wright and Broad were both due to play but Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara had to deputise, lengthening the batting but limiting the seam options.
He also proposed the appointment of deputy chief engineers who, though subordinate to the Chief Engineer, could deputise for him.
He will now be more determined than ever to insist that, when his colleague departs, he will deputise for the first minister in every sense of the word.
I have to deputise for the boss who is presently on study leave, take charge on the ward round, as well as teach today and then we have our usual Friday afternoon clinic.
He will report to the Editor in Chief, and will also deputise for him in his absence.

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