Vice president/ deputy

pretty much

Not related at all. A Vice President (if it's a democracy) is an top-level elected official in the Executive branch of a democratic style of gov't. A deputy is a low-level police enforcement official who is generally appointed (possibly by a sheriff) and not likely to be elected.

That's only one kind of deputy, rag. Look up the word. It just means assistant or second-in-command.

I now see that there IS a relationship. Technically, I see that it means the 2nd in command; however, if you were to ask 100 English speakers about the relationship of a deputy to the Vice President, I'd be willing to guess that few, if any, would associate those two terms. This is just one man's opinion who, FWIW, for a time, made a living as a tech writer but can be found out by the left field fence.

Your point about general useage in American English is taken. However, there would be nothing at all incorrect in asserting that the vice president's job is to be the deputy president. In fact, I've heard foreign visitors to the USA make this locution, sometimes in their own language. FWITW, I worked for a number of years as a contract escort-interpreter for the US State Dept. and had to explain quite a bit about the workings of our government to foreign visitors. Explaining what a vice president actually does can be difficult at the best of times. One way is to explain that he is the president's deputy.

I stand (and sit) corrected and better informed ..smiling merrily and grammar-enhancedly.

Careful Ragman. Your beginning to sound like Om Sig with that off the wall grammar.

Hey, he still knows how to spell, unlike our resident gun-nut.

I've got something to perspire to? Speaking of shooting off at the mouth...

The problem was you assumed that vice president was Vice president.

This same OP started another thread at about the same time as this one, which asked the question, "What is the vice president's vice?" I wisely refrained from giving a wise-ass answer.

Hello friends,

"Vice-", "deputy" and "assistant" are generally used to refer to the "second-in-command" or the one who may act as a representative for the holder of the original job title. Usually, these are also job titles held by a single person. "Associate," on the other hand is used to mean something similar to the others (in terms of being a subordinate), but they may be one of a number of such persons.

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Marie Colvin

Correct. The word "associate" connotes a degree of equality with the primary title-holder whereas "deputy" clearly marks the deputized as subordinate.