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STAND IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be a substitute
Example:
The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet
Synonyms:
fill in; stand in; sub; substitute
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "stand in" is one way to...):
change; exchange; interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
stand-in (someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult))
Context examples:
And it is highly probable, that such travellers, who shall hereafter visit the countries described in this work of mine, may, by detecting my errors (if there be any), and adding many new discoveries of their own, justle me out of vogue, and stand in my place, making the world forget that ever I was an author.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was no time for farther assurances or entreaty, though to part with her at a moment when her modesty alone seemed, to his sanguine and preassured mind, to stand in the way of the happiness he sought, was a cruel necessity.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He so frequently talked of the increasing expenses of housekeeping, and of the perpetual demands upon his purse, which a man of any consequence in the world was beyond calculation exposed to, that he seemed rather to stand in need of more money himself than to have any design of giving money away.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
“I was sure that Harrison would not stand in the way of sport,” said my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A worse man to deal with was a wooden-legged cripple who came hobbling down the path, so weak and so old to all appearance that a child need not stand in fear of him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The mother loved her daughter very much, and when she looked at her and then looked at the boy, it pierced her heart to think that he would always stand in the way of her own child, and she was continually thinking how she could get the whole of the property for her.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
