"stand-in" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-stand-in.ogg Forms: stand-ins [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from stand in. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|stand in}} Deverbal from stand in Head templates: {{en-noun}} stand-in (plural stand-ins)
  1. A person of similar size and shape to an actor who "stands in" for that actor during the lengthy process of setting up a shot, but who, unlike a double, does not appear in the film. Related terms: standee Translations (person who stands in for an actor during shooting setup): дубльор (dubljor) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 代替者 (dàitìzhě) (Chinese Mandarin), doublure (French), Double [neuter] (German), Ersatz [masculine] (German), Lichtdouble [neuter] [film, television, broadcasting, media] (German), Springer (english: (jobs)) [masculine] (German), Springerin [feminine] (German), kaszkadőr (Hungarian), dublőr (Hungarian), duple (Interlingua), cascatore [masculine] (Italian), sosia [masculine] (Italian), 代理 (dairi) (alt: だいり) (Japanese), 影武者 (kagemusha) (Japanese), dobro (Portuguese), dublură (Romanian), дублёр (dubljór) [masculine] (Russian), neach-ionaid [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), doble (Spanish), doble de luces (Spanish), stand-in [common-gender] (Swedish), benzer (Turkish), dublör [film, television, broadcasting, media] (Turkish), vekil (Turkish), yedek (Turkish)
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  2. A substitute.
    Sense id: en-stand-in-en-noun-en:substitute

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.