Substitute: Definition and part of speech

Substitute

  1. n. a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.
  2. n. 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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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