Usually means: Substitute missing elements or information.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word fill-in:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. fill-in: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fill-in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fill-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fill-in, fill-in: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fill-in: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fill-In, Fill-in, fill-in: Wordnik
  7. fill-in: Wiktionary
  8. fill-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fill-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fill-in: Dictionary.com
  11. Fill-in: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fill-in: Rhymezone
  13. fill-in: Free Dictionary
  14. fill-in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fill-in: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fill-in: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fill-in: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. fill-in: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fill-in)

noun:  A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
noun:  A substitution.
noun:  (mathematics) An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
noun:  A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
noun:  (music) A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
noun:  Something added to fill a gap.
noun:  Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
noun:  (marketing) A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.

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