English Qusetion. Help Please!

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• agrainofsand Posts: 8,693

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  06/09/13 - 16:36 #2

  Fitting?
  Rightful?

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• Croctacus Posts: 18,296

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  06/09/13 - 16:37 #3

  More suited to the position?

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• weateallthepies Posts: 4,426

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  06/09/13 - 16:37 #4

  Commendable?

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• StillAlive Posts: 1,044

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  06/09/13 - 16:39 #5

  'Lazy arse replacement'

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• cat666 Posts: 2,063

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  06/09/13 - 16:40 #6

  I'd start with the basics, like learning to spell "question".

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• jjwales Posts: 48,572

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  06/09/13 - 16:41 #7

  Better qualified?

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• jasvinyl Posts: 14,631

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  06/09/13 - 16:44 #8

  Appropriate?
  
  Shoe in?

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 4,138

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  06/09/13 - 16:46 #9

  chinchin wrote: »

  I am looking for a term (or phrase) meaning the person more deserving. So if there is a manager who is never there and someone know and does the job better, but doesn't actually have the job?
  
  They are the more deserving. It's kind of honorary or more deserving. It's driving me mad trying to find the answer. More meritorious etc It would apply to say anyone in authority or power , but someone else is that in that post in all but name.
  
  It's driving me round the twist trying to think of the word or the term! Please help!

  
  de facto ?

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• grantus_max Posts: 2,744

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  06/09/13 - 16:47 #10

  Have you tried thesaurus.com? A very useful resource for finding alternative terms.
  
  Try this entry for the term 'deserving' - http://thesaurus.com/browse/deserving

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• chinchin Posts: 125,851

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  06/09/13 - 16:47 #11

  bugloss wrote: »

  de facto ?

  
  Hey that's a good one. I just came up with Ipso Facto and morally. That might be better!:) Thanks!

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• Teddybleads Posts: 6,814

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  06/09/13 - 16:48 #12

  chinchin wrote: »

  I am looking for a term (or phrase) meaning the person more deserving. So if there is a manager who is never there and someone know and does the job better, but doesn't actually have the job?
  
  They are the more deserving. It's kind of honorary or more deserving. It's driving me mad trying to find the answer. More meritorious etc It would apply to say anyone in authority or power , but someone else is that in that post in all but name.
  
  It's driving me round the twist trying to think of the word or the term! Please help!

  
  De Facto?

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• fruitbat Posts: 4,309

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  06/09/13 - 16:48 #13

  commendable, estimable, laudable

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• chinchin Posts: 125,851

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  06/09/13 - 16:48 #14

  cat666 wrote: »

  I'd start with the basics, like learning to spell "question".

  
  It's called a 'typo'. You may wish to research.

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• chinchin Posts: 125,851

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  06/09/13 - 16:53 #15

  I think de facto was the closest to what I was thinking of. So thanks everyone for all your suggestions.

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• chinchin Posts: 125,851

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  06/09/13 - 17:05 #16

  Also I have come up with 'morally'.

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• Richard46 Posts: 59,834

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  06/09/13 - 17:29 #17

  Sounds like you have your word; just noting there is a management theory that is relevant to this I think; Charles Handy in understanding Organisations talks about the sources of power people have in an organisation;
  
  
  Power resources (physical, financial, position, expert, personal), methods of influence (force, rules/procedures, exchange, persuasion, ecology, magnetism)
  
  i.e. Sounds like the person you are trying to describe fits the categories of having expert and/or personal power rather than just power from their position in the hierarchy.
  
  So they are likely to be good at using persuasion etc rather than say using rules and regulations.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 57

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  06/09/13 - 22:36 #18

  jasvinyl wrote: »

  Shoe in?

  
  Or even shoo-in.

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• JELLIES0 Posts: 6,709

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  07/09/13 - 00:07 #19

  A more able/ more effective surrogate manager.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 16,986

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  07/09/13 - 00:08 #20

  Meritorious.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 8,916

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  07/09/13 - 00:12 #21

  Skivvy

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• cnbcwatcher Posts: 56,681

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  07/09/13 - 00:25 #22

  StillAlive wrote: »

  'Lazy arse replacement'

  
  I like that one

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• Bedlam_maid Posts: 5,922

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  07/09/13 - 00:30 #23

  Worthy.

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  07/09/13 - 00:34 #24

  a phrase for someone who gets all the credit but doesn't do any of the work.............
  
  Sebastian Coe??

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• jasvinyl Posts: 14,631

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  07/09/13 - 01:31 #25

  kevin0410 wrote: »

  Or even shoo-in.

  
  Oh no, did I , did I... get it wrong??!?
  
  Luckily you were smart enough to know exactly what I meant, so thank's for the correction, you smart arse, you.

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• Sigurd Posts: 26,610

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  07/09/13 - 01:50 #26

  jasvinyl wrote: »

  Oh no, did I , did I... get it wrong??!?
  
  Luckily you were smart enough to know exactly what I meant, so thank's for the correction, you smart arse, you.

  I thought it was "shoe-in" myself, but apparently it isn't.
  
  http://grammarist.com/spelling/shoo-in/

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