substitution

Roget category 147

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.7. Change
›› 1.7.1. Simple change

#147. [Change of one thing for another.] Substitution

noun

substitution, commutation — supplanting etc. v. — metaphor, metonymy etc. (figure of speech) 521.
[Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum — shift, pis aller [Fr.], stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat — double — changeling — quid pro quo, alternative.
representative etc. (deputy) 759 — palimpsest.
price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.

verb

substitute, put in the place of, change for — make way for, give place to — supply the place of, take the place of — supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute — step into stand in the shoes of — jury rig, make a shift with, put up with — borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize — commute, redeem, compound for.

adjective

substituted &c. — ersatz — phony — vicarious, subdititious^†.

adverb

instead — in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of — faute de mieux [Fr.].

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