what does stand-in mean?

STAND-IN as NOUN

Meaning
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
Synonym(s)
- backup (what does backup mean?)
- backup man (what does backup man mean?)
- fill-in (what does fill-in mean?)
- relief (what does relief mean?)
- reliever (what does reliever mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
Usage Example(s)
- the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes
- we need extra employees for summer fill-ins
Hypernyms(s) stand-in is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- peer (what does peer mean?)
- equal (what does equal mean?)
- match (what does match mean?)
- compeer (what does compeer mean?)
Hyponym(s)
- locum tenens (what does locum tenens mean?)
- locum (what does locum mean?)
- double (what does double mean?)
- stunt man (what does stunt man mean?)
- stunt woman (what does stunt woman mean?)
- surrogate (what does surrogate mean?)
- alternate (what does alternate mean?)
- replacement (what does replacement mean?)
Derived(s)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- sub (what does sub mean?)
- stand in (what does stand in mean?)
- fill in (what does fill in mean?)
- take over (what does take over mean?)
- relieve (what does relieve mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- deputize (what does deputize mean?)
- deputise (what does deputise mean?)
- step in (what does step in mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- sub (what does sub mean?)
- stand in (what does stand in mean?)
- fill in (what does fill in mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- sub (what does sub mean?)
- stand in (what does stand in mean?)
- fill in (what does fill in mean?)

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what does stand in mean?

STAND IN as VERB

Meaning
- be a substitute
Synonym(s)
- fill in (what does fill in mean?)
- sub (what does sub mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
Usage Example(s)
- The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague
- The skim milk substitutes for cream–we are on a strict diet
Hypernyms(s) stand in is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- exchange (what does exchange mean?)
- change (what does change mean?)
- interchange (what does interchange mean?)
Derived(s)
- stand-in (what does stand-in mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- relief (what does relief mean?)
- reliever (what does reliever mean?)
- backup (what does backup mean?)
- backup man (what does backup man mean?)
- fill-in (what does fill-in mean?)
- stand-in (what does stand-in mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- relief (what does relief mean?)
- reliever (what does reliever mean?)
- backup (what does backup mean?)
- backup man (what does backup man mean?)
- fill-in (what does fill-in mean?)
- subbing (what does subbing mean?)
- substituting (what does substituting mean?)
- stand-in (what does stand-in mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- relief (what does relief mean?)
- reliever (what does reliever mean?)
- backup (what does backup mean?)
- backup man (what does backup man mean?)
- fill-in (what does fill-in mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- reserve (what does reserve mean?)
- substitute (what does substitute mean?)
- replacement (what does replacement mean?)
- substitution (what does substitution mean?)
- permutation (what does permutation mean?)
- transposition (what does transposition mean?)
- replacement (what does replacement mean?)
- switch (what does switch mean?)
- subbing (what does subbing mean?)
- substituting (what does substituting mean?)

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