substitute : | |||||||||||||
a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another an athlete who plays only when another member of the team drops out 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" 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" act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold" 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" artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee" artificial |
|||||||||||||
|