Stand-in definition

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standin stand-ins
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The definition of a stand in is someone who fills in for another person, often temporarily.

An example of a stand-in is an understudy who goes on for the star when the star loses her voice.

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A person of similar size and shape to an actor that "stands-in" for the actor during the lengthy process of setting up a shot, who, unlike a double, does not appear in the film.

They used a stand-in to set up the lighting so that the actor did not have to be there during the lengthy process.

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One who substitutes for an actor while the lights and camera are adjusted or during hazardous action.
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A substitute.
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A person who serves as a substitute for a film or television actor or actress as while lights and cameras are being adjusted.
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Any substitute for another.
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Noun

Singular:
stand-in
Plural:
stand-ins

Origin of stand-in

  • to stand in

    From Wiktionary

Stand-in Sentence Examples

  • Don't let me stand in your way.

  • An elf suit pattern can make a great stand-in for a traditional Santa costume pattern.

  • There are no long lines to stand in or dressing rooms to use.

  • By reduction, the double linkages become saturated, and compounds result which stand in much about the same relation to the original nucleus as hexamethylene does to benzene.

  • But the more serious difficulties which to many minds still stand in the way of the acceptance of the epistle have come from the developed phase of Pauline theology which it shows, and from the general background and atmosphere of the underlying system of thought, in which the absence of the well-known earlier controversies is remarkable, while some things suggest the thought of John and a later age.

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