Definition of "stand-in" [stand-in]

• One who substitutes for an actor while the lights and camera are adjusted or during hazardous action. (noun)
• A substitute. (noun)

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• "A campaign run by the always-chingón Applied Research Center publishers of the even-more-chingón magazine, Colorlines is seeking that everyone stop using the term "illegal" outright, or at the least resort to using the awkward I-word stand-in."
• "It is often positively correlated with the standard of living, though its use as a stand-in for measuring the standard of living has come under increasing criticism and many countries are actively exploring alternative measures to GDP for that purpose."
• "Phillips highlights what I attempted to do around the controversy of what Harman said in her time as stand-in PM."