stand in
US usually fill in— phrasal verb with stand uk/stænd/us/stænd/verb stood, stood
C2 to do the job that another person was going to do or usually does, or to take that person's place at an event, because they cannot be there:
Paula stood in for Jane, while Jane was on holiday.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargain sth away
- change over
- change places idiom
- fill
- name
- part exchange
- pinch-hit
- pre-empt
- proxy
- rep
- represent
- reserve
- sit
- succeed
- succession
- supersede
- supplant
- swap
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