stand in

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verb

be a substitute (Freq. 1)
- The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague
- The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet
• Syn:
substitute, sub, fill in
• Derivationally related forms:
fill-in (for: fill in), stand-in, subbing (for: sub), substitute (for: substitute), substitution (for: substitute), substituting (for: substitute)
• Hypernyms:
exchange, change, interchange
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP