| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | One that takes the place of another: alternate, replacement, stand-in, surrogate. Informal : fill-in, pinch hitter, sub. See SUBSTITUTE. | | VERB: | 1. To give up in return for something else: change, commute, exchange, interchange, shift, switch, trade. Informal : swap. See CHANGE, SUBSTITUTE. 2. To act as a substitute: fill in, stand in, supply. Informal : pinch-hit, sub. See SUBSTITUTE.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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