stand in

1. 1.

   be a substitute

   “The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague”

   “The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet”

   Synonymssubstitutesubfill in

   Broaderexchange

Questions about stand in

What does stand in mean?

stand in means "be a substitute".

What is another word for stand in?

Close synonyms include substitute, sub, fill in. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stand in a common word?

stand in is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.