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: someone employed to occupy an actor's place while lights and camera are readied
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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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Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Simpler, one-way attack, decoy, or stand-in jamming-type drones can be somewhat cheaper to produce and could still perform vital roles within a complex joint strike package.
—Justin Bronk, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2025
Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
Created by brothers Ray and Russell Knaus as a modest fruit stand in 1956, the market has become a Miami institution.
—Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
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Noun
The actor also said Reiner didn’t shy from the hard parts of Elwes playing a stand-in for him.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Simpler, one-way attack, decoy, or stand-in jamming-type drones can be somewhat cheaper to produce and could still perform vital roles within a complex joint strike package.
—Justin Bronk, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2025
Verb
In the second video, her mother-in-law can be seen standing in front of the massive stocking display in her living room.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
Created by brothers Ray and Russell Knaus as a modest fruit stand in 1956, the market has become a Miami institution.
—Miami Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stand-in
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“Stand-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stand-in. Accessed 22 Dec. 2025.
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