{s} of or pertaining to a substitute, acting as a substitute; made up of substitutes
In team games such as football, a substitute is a player who is brought into a match to replace another player. Coming on as a substitute, he scored four crucial goals for Cameroon
a replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose
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"
If you say that one thing is no substitute for another, you mean that it does not have certain desirable features that the other thing has, and is therefore unsatisfactory. If you say that there is no substitute for something, you mean that it is the only thing which is really satisfactory. The printed word is no substitute for personal discussion with a great thinker There is no substitute for practical experience
A replacement for the item of business under consideration There are substitute amendments and substitute bills If a substitute bill is offered by a committee it is called a committee substitute If a substitute is offered when the bill is being perfected, it is called a House Substitute or a Senate Substitute If it is offered by a conference committee it is called a Conference Committee Substitute
One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man
A motion, amendment or entire bill introduced in place of the pending legislative business Passage of a substitute measure kills the original measure by replacing it The substitute may also be amended
A good that can replace another, so that a rise in the price of one increases demand for the other (p 79)
A motion, an amendment or an entire bill that is introduced to replace the pending legislative business
A substitute is something that you have or use instead of something else. tests on humans to find a blood substitute made from animal blood
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"