0 an actor who learns the parts of other actors in a play, so that he or she can replace them if necessary, for example if they are ill:
An understudy took over for the rest of the performance and the evening show.
Understudies never know when they might have to go on.
1 to learn the lines of other actors in a play, so that you can replace them if necessary, for example if they are ill:
2 an actor or other performer who learns the parts of others in a play, opera, etc., so that he or she can replace them if necessary
The play starts with the Director announcing that one actor has been replaced by an understudy.
She tells me she is indisposed, and her understudy is to play the part tonight.
He was with the national tour of "The Lion King", understudying the roles of Scar and Pumbaa.
She essentially understudies eleven characters in the musical.
Lisa Fennell, in addition to her role in the chorus, was to understudy Désirée.
These tribunals (which include such bodies as the boards of conciliation and arbitration) are understudied in terms of their political and social relevance.
I was temporarily understudy to the senior economist who created the course and taught it for the previous five years.
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