substitutes
noun
Meaning
- A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
- 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.
- To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- (in the phrase "substitute X for Y") To use X in place of Y.
- (in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y") To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
- To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
- To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
- A good that a consumer perceives as similar to another good, which decreases the demand for that other good
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