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• n  working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence
• v  put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
• v  be a substitute
• v  act as a substitute

• When methadone was first proposed for the treatment of heroin addiction, it sounded like a pointless gambit sort of like substituting vodka for gin.
• The local crime rate has risen steeply, reports Saul, and "there's a great deal of dirty work, with shifting or substituting claim pegs.
• Third, it was amended by substituting 3) the Underwood plan for the Norris plan.

• subbing
• substitute
• replace
• interchange
• exchange
• sub
• stand in
• fill in
• deputize
• deputise
• step in

News & Articles

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• Low-fat Ingredient Substitutions
  Substituting a few siple ingredients in your recipes will go a long way to making them - and you - significantly more healthy!
  June 18, 2013 - FOX 23 Maine
• Ventura targets author's widow with defamation lawsuit
  Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is asking a judge to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle to go forward by substituting Kyle's widow as the defendant.
  June 18, 2013 - KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul
• Ventura wants "American Sniper" lawsuit to proceed
  Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is asking a judge to allow his defamation lawsuit against slain "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle to go forward by substituting Kyle's widow as the defendant.
  June 17, 2013 - KTTC Rochester

Quotes

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• Antonin Scalia in ABC News
  No matter how important the underlying policy issues at stake, this Court has no business substituting its own desired outcome for the reasoned judgment of the responsible agency,wrote Scalia.
• Dmitry Medvedev in Reuters
  No matter how big the American market and no matter how strong the American financial system, they are incapable of substituting for global commodity and financial markets,Medvedev told the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
• Farouk El-Baz in Earthtimes.org
  No battle will have been won or lost, no enemy will have been captured or killed ...... because we spent an entire night delivering our poll-tested message points, spinning our sound bites, arguing with each other and substituting our amateur... John McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhauRSvpu74c5JI21AhXVu-x_kmQ The Age http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Bushs-Republicans-block-Iraq-exit-vote/2007/07/19/1184559897876.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGRUyhlwCWOXv4OOyYkEJLshEv2Ig Jul 18, 2007 96031 127518 substrate One thing is certain," said El-Baz, "much of the lake's water would have seeped through the sandstone substrate to accumulate as groundwater."