stand-in
Noun
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Someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) (synset 110667676)
"the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"; "we need extra employees for summer fill-ins"is a type of: compeer, equal, match, peer - a person who is of equal standing with another in a groupsubtypes:
- locum, locum tenens - someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession
- double, stunt man, stunt woman - a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- alternate, replacement, surrogate - someone who takes the place of another person
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