1
: someone employed to occupy an actor's place while lights and camera are readied
2
stood in; standing in; stands in
: to act as a stand-in
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Examples of stand-in in a Sentence
Noun
hired him at the last minute as a stand-in for the person who quit
Verb
she will be standing in for the regular teacher for a week
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Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Mario quickly became a stand-in for Nintendo, an easily recognizable image to drop into gameplay as needed.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2026
Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Before Balayan opened her restaurant in Yerevan, Tumanyan ART stood in Stepanakert, Artsakh’s capital.
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Noun
In the episode, detectives Vincent Riley (Reid Scott) and Theo Walker (David Ajala) chase the shooters through the Brooklyn Museum, a stand-in for the show’s fictional Atlas Museum of Art.
—Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Mario quickly became a stand-in for Nintendo, an easily recognizable image to drop into gameplay as needed.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
Often, Marcano had to stand in line for hours with her sick daughter to insure that Amalia was seen by Dilley’s medical team.
—Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Before Balayan opened her restaurant in Yerevan, Tumanyan ART stood in Stepanakert, Artsakh’s capital.
—Marlise Kast-Myers, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
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“Stand-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stand-in. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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