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substitute English

Meaning substitute meaning

What does substitute mean?
Definitions in simple English

substitute Noun

— A substitute is a person on standby for a sport team or school teacher. Although he was only a substitute for the team, but he played very well during yesterday's match.

substitute Verb

— If you substitute x for y, you don't use y and use x instead. You may substitute fresh lime juice for lemon juice

substitute

— verb (= replace, interchange) 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 — noun a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another — verb 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 — verb act as a substitute She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold — noun an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced — noun (= stand-in, fill-in) 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 — adjective (= ersatz) artificial and inferior ersatz coffee substitute coffee — adjective (= utility) capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team a utility infielder — adjective (= alternative) serving or used in place of another an alternative plan

Synonyms substitute synonyms

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substitute English » English

replace replacement deputy exchange change proxy alternate representative surrogate ersatz agent shift interchange switch sub take the place of alternative swap stand-in relieve relief instead of utility transfer temporary take turns supplant supersede succeed substitution substituting stand in for stand in sacrifice rotate fill-in fill in deputize deputise attorney assistant acting upholder trade take one’s place swop supplementary succedaneum sub-agent stopgap

Topics substitute topics

What do people use substitute to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

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Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

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Substitute

Conjugation substitute conjugation

How do you conjugate substitute?

substitute · verb

Examples substitute examples

How do I use substitute in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It's a word I'd like to find a substitute for.
You cannot substitute money for health.
I'm only the substitute teacher.
I don't like the substitute teacher.
It is impossible to substitute machines for people.
Tofu can be used as a substitute for meat.
That class had a substitute teacher for the first week of school.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
He was a substitute teacher.
It will be hard to find a substitute for her.
You can use margarine as a substitute for butter.
We encounter similar difficulties when we substitute rectangles for triangles in this configuration.
We should substitute alcohol for oil.
There's no substitute for hard work.
Soy milk is a great substitute for milk.
Time has come to admit that hard work and hope are no substitute for actual knowledge.
Perhaps we could find a substitute.
The substitute teacher was bullied by the students.
He served as a substitute for the boy's father.

Movie subtitles

Please accept the flowers as a substitute.
He's our Sheriff Substitute.
He's a substitute for Father Fogarty. who has departed for a much needed rest.
Put a substitute to the compressor.
This one was a last-minute substitute.
Has he got a substitute, or is he going to follow your advice for a change?
It took a mere three minutes to substitute petrol for the paraffin in the darkroom lamp.
All you have to do now is to substitute this expression at this point.
It's a bitter substitute.
Suppose Fulton missed a performance. If I could substitute.
However, since you've retired from the field you might inform Miss Shannon of a handsome, young newspaperman who would be very, very happy to substitute at any.
It isn't like Lieutenant Abbott to send a substitute.
I haven't finished. To remove the gland and substitute an alternative.
Well, a son is a poor substitute for a lover.
And substitute something of my own? - Quite an unusual request.
He's our Sheriff Substitute. Scotch for a local beat.
You mean he'll try to frame a substitute for Paul Clarke?
I'm the substitute right fielder.
In the Year 2008 with the help of Croatian Audiovisual Center Croatian Cinematheque preserved this film making a substitute original and restored it through photo chemical procedure in the laboratory of Jadran film.
I beg your pardon, but couldn't I substitute for Willie?
Might be possible with some people. A love like ours has no substitute.
Though as you say. - Thirty-five..we only need to vary the intermediates to make a substitute for wool, cotton, linen, whatever you please.
You have to manage, make for yourself a good substitute act.
If I could substitute.
I mean, a career is just fine but it's no substitute for marriage.
I'm a physician yet not I nor any of my colleagues, no matter how learned have ever found a substitute for those words as a rule for human relationship.
All this art stuff. that's been a substitute for something, hasn't it?
They served coffee on the train, but it was just a substitute.
I had the substitute take over.
You were just a substitute.
You're a poor substitute for Abraham Lincoln.
I need a substitute.
You want me to be a substitute bridegroom?
I've got a substitute, if you can't go.
No, he sent a substitute.

News and current affairs

One such implication is that developing countries will have to substitute real industrial policies for those that operate through the exchange rate.
Unfortunately, there is no ready substitute for the US as a force for advancing human rights internationally.
In this sense, they ignore the fact that the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact has been in principle an important component of political union, not its substitute.
But no amount of lofty rhetoric can substitute for the reforms outlined here - or obviate the need for them.
Substitute Xinjiang for Kazakhstan and Tibet for Ukraine and you get the picture.
But bold assertions, even from central bankers, are no substitute for research and analysis.
Or, to be precise, a carbon tax could substitute for the huge array of taxes that is eventually coming anyway in the wake of massive government budget deficits.
Foreign aid is no substitute for insurance.
It must never be a substitute for the absence of other ideas.
The IMF cannot substitute for governments' choices.
Performance enhancing drugs disguise natural abilities and substitute for the dedication and focus that we admire.
The financial crisis forced sovereign states to substitute their own credit for the credit that had collapsed, and in Europe each state had to do so on its own, calling into question the creditworthiness of European government bonds.
Markets understand that the ECB cannot forever substitute for other government agencies, so they repeatedly call into question its bridging strategy.
So how is it that policymakers have managed to substitute the latter for the former?
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visits to Georgia and Russia proved that there is no substitute for Europe insofar as the Caucasus is concerned.
The disintegration of the business empire is then accompanied and amplified by bitter disputes between the children and the substitute children.
But Italy, unlike France, is in no position to substitute the beauty of Carla Bruni, Sarkozy's new wife, for real prestige.
One common forecast is that as ever-more advanced robots substitute workers, the cost of labor will become less important, and manufacturing will move back to rich countries.
Finally, there is no substitute for restructuring.
From an economic (and environmental) standpoint, fracking is thus unlikely to bring large benefits for Europe: shale gas might simply substitute for plentiful conventional gas.
But the fact that the ECB's power is only a technocratic substitute for the eurozone's missing democratic political institutions will remain a growing problem in 2013.
Joblessness is the main cause of poverty, and the best protection against it is earned income, for which even France's generous welfare payments are an inadequate substitute.

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