mini-me
n.— «He has four deputies—“mini-me’s” as he calls them: Michelle Bang in Singapore for Asia ex-Japan, Andy Fay for Australia, Tsukasa Sekizaki for Japan and Dan Smaller in Dubai for the Middle East.» —“How DeAM has sourced $5 billion from Asia this year” by Jame DiBiasio FinanceAsia.com July 31, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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