0 to use something or someone instead of another thing or person: --
1 a thing or person that is used instead of another thing or person: --
You can read about other countries, but there's no substitute for visiting them yourself.
The manager brought on another substitute in the final minutes of the game.
Johnson came on as a substitute towards the end of the game.
Vitamins should not be used as a substitute for a healthy diet.
Tofu can be used as a meat substitute in vegetarian recipes.
2 to use someone or something instead of another person or thing: --
3 to use something different or new instead of another thing: --
4 to take the place of another person or do their job for a period of time: --
Users of text search engines use various strategies for refinement including substituting broader and narrower terms to increase or decrease the number of hits, respectively.
Thus, the intertemporal substitutability in consumption of the second good "undoes" the effect of the indivisibility by substituting percentages in time for probabilities.
However, theory requires exact solutions that can be substituted into new theories.
The expressions (6.2) are substituted into (5.6) and (5.8) which are then linearized with respect to the constants marked with a tilde.
Then, the so-obtained values of the integration constants are substituted back into the integrated equations.
Other reports made similar assertions, but substituted snakes, 'seven to eight feet in length', for the beetles.
In essence, the new welfare puts the onus of responsibility on recipients rather than government and substitutes an 'obligation' for an 'entitlement' form of provision.
Expert systems originated in the 1970s as computer programs capable of imitating human experts and even substituting them when necessary.
