单词 | remplaçant |
释义 | remplaçantn. A man who replaces or acts as a substitute for another; (in later use) esp. one who undertakes military service in place of another. Cf. remplaçante n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute changec1460 supplier1491 quid pro quo?1535 supply1567 vicegerent1583 substitute1589 vice1597 succedane1601 surrogate1644 succedaneum1651 succedaneum1662 vicar1676 superseder?1774 supersessor1810 locum tenens1814 supplial1837 remplaçant1850 fill-in1918 Stepney1928 stand-in1933 substituter1956 1850 Lady Eddisbury Let. 23 Mar. in N. Mitford Ladies of Alderley (1938) 280 At 5 Macaulay sent word he was too ill to come, Ed. could get no remplaçant & so at ¼ to 8, our dinner having dwindled, we sent for Mama. 1880 E. W. Hamilton Diary 23 May (1972) I. 14 The defence of the Government is..that as he [sc. Sir B. Frere] is more conversant than any ‘remplaçant’ could be with the important question of confederation, he had better be left to carry that through. 1914 E. A. Vizetelly My Days of Adventure ii. 27 There was a system in vogue by which a conscript of means could avoid service by supplying a remplaçant. 2002 A. Forrest Napoleon's Men i. 17 Rural Frenchmen showed less interest in soldiering and peasants were more likely than townsmen to seek escape by buying a remplaçant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1850 |
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