substitute
/ˈsʌb.stɪ.tʃuːt/ sustantivo B1En español: sustituto, substituto
- A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
- A substitute teacher.
- A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
- One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
Plural substitutes
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Gardiner would be prevented by business from setting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month; and as that left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour; and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northward than Derbyshire.
“Well, I hoped to get an exchange of arms,—to substitute the sword for the pistol; the pistol is blind.”
And if I do not possess that talent, which your smiles prove to me you doubt, should I not still have that ardent love of independence, which will be a substitute for wealth, and which in my mind supersedes even the instinct of self-preservation?
Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none, but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crepe was an excellent substitute.
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