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Adjective
- serving or used in place of another
- capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team
Noun
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes
- we need extra employees for summer fill-ins
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
Verb
- act as a substitute
- She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold
- be a substitute
- The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague
- The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt
- substitute regular milk with fat-free milk
- synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning