Usually means: Substitute temporarily acting for another.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word stand-in:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. stand-in: Merriam-Webster
  2. stand-in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stand-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stand-in, stand-in: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stand-in: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stand-In, Stand-in, stand-in: Wordnik
  7. stand-in: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stand-in: Wiktionary
  9. stand-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stand-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stand-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stand-in: Dictionary.com
  13. stand-in: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Stand-In, Stand-in: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. stand-in: Rhymezone
  16. stand-in: FreeDictionary.org
  17. stand-in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. stand-in: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. stand-in: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand-in: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand-in: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stand-in: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stand-in: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person of similar size and shape to an actor who "stands in" for that actor during the lengthy process of setting up a shot, but who, unlike a double, does not appear in the film.
noun:  A substitute.

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