Synonym: change, exchange, replace, shift, switch. Similar words: destitute, constitute, institution, restitution, constitution, institutional, constitutional, unconstitutional. Meaning: ['sʌbstɪtuːt /-tjuːt] 
n. 1. a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another 2. an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced 3. someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult). v. 1. put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items 2. be a substitute 3. act as a substitute. adj. 1. being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team 2. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team 3. artificial and inferior.
n. 1. a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another 2. an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced 3. someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult). v. 1. put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items 2. be a substitute 3. act as a substitute. adj. 1. being a replacement or substitute for a regular member of a team 2. capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team 3. artificial and inferior. 
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61) They found their local bus service a poor substitute.
62) Their vast horizontal planes of activity could then provide a substitute horizon.
63) The development of programme structures was seen as an additional administrative responsibility rather than a substitute for previous ones.
64) For those sports possessing a similar collection of characteristics we would expect to have substitute relationships.
65) Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road.
66) However, gouache is not a substitute for watercolour, and is a water-based medium in its own right.
67) Some one with greater political vision might have seen the end of hostilities as the right moment to substitute civilian for military leadership.
68) Mooney sent Darren Foreman away down the right and his cross was perfectly converted by substitute Mark Jules in the centre.
69) Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals.
70) They offer a way to substitute local wood and charcoal for expensive imported diesel and petrol.
71) After assessment by the child care officer or reception centre, the child is placed in a suitable substitute home.
72) Yet, increasingly, vicarious experience via film, video and music is a substitute for civic life and community.
73) This was an influential study which broadly supported the view that permanent substitute parents should be found for children in long-term care.
74) The government believes that the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision.
75) In February, questions surfaced about a $ 33. 7 million contract to buy a soy-based meat substitute called VitaPro.
76) For the old polycentric system of the Council they sought to substitute departments controlled by ministers.
77) There were fears that it was intended to remove him and substitute some one more acquiescent.
78) Substitute biology teacher John Scopes volunteered to be the test case.
79) Peterborough substitute Peter Costello had a great chance to be an instant hero.
80) Such a congress would not be a substitute for an elected Constituent Assembly and could not itself write a new constitution.
81) On this stingy substitute rain, the behemoth of all living things, the redwood , thrives.
82) In his teens he had begun to fiddle with the concept of a substitute for direct current.
83) Now I've started using coconut fibre which is a peat substitute.
84) He had heard of girls marrying a father substitute, but he had not met one before.
85) What happens, then, if we substitute the cat with an ape-man, just at the dawn of human consciousness?
85) Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
86) Gravel is a good substitute for a lawn, especially in a very small garden.
87) To emphasise his authority the unforgiving Rangers boss exposed Roberts to a humiliating period as a reserve team substitute.
88) But the best way of making amends is to substitute for old habits new, and better, ones.
89) They are deposited on an overhanging leaf, or, in the aquarium, an artificial substitute.
90) For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order.
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