stand-in

Speech parts

1. stand-in - Noun

2. stand-in - Verb

Meaning

be a substitute

Alternative names

stand in

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Examples

For the first time in history at Question Time, all three parties are represented by a stand-in for the real leader. William Hague

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant. Allison Williams

At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots. Keith Coogan

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood. David James Elliott

In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on. Tobin Bell

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine. John T. Noonan, Jr.

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