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单词 stand-in
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stand-inn.adj.

Brit. /ˈstandɪn/, U.S. /ˈstændˌɪn/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to stand in at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1.
Etymology: < to stand in at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1.
A. n.
1. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A friendly or profitable arrangement or understanding (with another person), esp. for illicit purposes. Cf. to stand in 6b at stand v. Phrasal verbs 1. Now rare.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
forewardOE
accordc1275
covenant1297
end1297
form1297
frettec1330
conjurationc1374
treatc1380
bargainc1386
contractc1386
comenaunt1389
compositionc1405
treaty1427
pact1429
paction1440
reconventionc1449
treatisea1464
hostage1470
packa1475
trystc1480
bond (also band) of manrent1482
covenance1484
concordance1490
patisement1529
capitulation1535
conventmenta1547
convenience1551
compact1555
negotiation1563
sacrament1563
match1569
consortship1592
after-agreementa1600
combourgeoisie1602
convention1603
comburghership1606
transaction1611
end-makingc1613
obligement1627
bare contract1641
stipulation1649
accompackmentc1650
rue-bargaina1657
concordat1683
minute1720
tacka1758
understanding1803
meet1804
it's a go1821
deal1863
whizz1869
stand-in1870
gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > collusion, intrigue > [noun] > instance > of friendly kind
stand-in1870
1870 Food Jrnl. Nov. 523 The affair is settled amicably by a ‘stand in’, which means that the purchaser shall pay the other, or others, a certain sum not to bid against him.
1926 J. Black You can't Win iv. 41 The whole thing was a stand-in from the captain down. Everybody's satisfied. The sucker has his money, the girls are all out.
1948 Kingsport (Tennessee) News 20 May 3/3 ‘Lucy should be able to help you,’ she said. ‘She has a stand-in with her boss.’
2.
a. Originally U.S. In the production of a film, TV programme, etc.: a person who substitutes for a principal actor during technical preparations for filming or recording, such as setting up cameras and lighting.See also stand-in man, stand-in woman in quot. 1928 at sense B.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > actors or characters > [noun] > other actors
lens louse1928
stand-in1929
baddie1934
goody1934
narrator1941
voice actor1958
playback singer1963
voice-over1966
voice actress1974
body double1981
1929 Bookman Feb. 624/1 The stand-in retires in the star's favor a moment before the camera starts.
1937 Daily Mirror 16 Mar. 2/1 Being a ‘stand-in’ does not necessarily mean that you must be exactly alike.
1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof ii. 22 The stand-ins were called for. The shot was lined up.
2010 New Yorker 5 July 50/2 Nearly a third of ‘Dinner for Schmucks’ was composed by the actors in front of the cameras, with new ideas, or ‘alts’, being suggested between takes by the director, the writers, the actors, visitors to the set, and even Carell's stand-in.
b. More generally: a person who substitutes for or takes the place of another in a position, role, or job, usually temporarily; a replacement. Also in extended use, of a thing.
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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute
changec1460
supplier1491
quid pro quo?1535
supply1567
vicegerent1583
substitute1589
vice1597
succedane1601
surrogate1644
succedaneum1651
succedaneum1662
vicar1676
superseder?1774
supersessor1810
locum tenens1814
supplial1837
remplaçant1850
fill-in1918
Stepney1928
stand-in1933
substituter1956
1933 Scotsman 14 Aug. 11/6 Perhaps some exception may be made to allow for a stand-in [for an itinerant caravan owner] for a set number of hours.
1952 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Apr. (B ed.) 3/3 An absorbable gelatin sponge..may serve..as a stand-in for the liver when it becomes necessary to remove part of that organ.
1968 T. Stoppard Real Inspector Hound (1970) 11 An army of assistants and deputies, the seconds-in-command, the runners-up, the right-hand men..stand-ins of the world stand up!
2014 Guardian 15 Nov. 36/1 They're called the blood bikers: men and women all over Britain who dedicate a few evenings a week to transporting hospital deliveries across the country as stand-ins for the daytime professionals.
B. adj. (in attributive use).
That is a stand-in (in sense A. 2); that acts as a substitute or replacement for another.
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1928 Washington Post 4 Mar. (Amusements & Features section) 4/4Stand in man’ or ‘stand in woman.’ This is something only recently introduced at Paramount. In order that the star may be spared some of the unnecessary grind of a hard day's work, ‘stand in men’ were introduced.
1958 Engineering 11 Apr. 457/3 Preliminary experiments were made on ‘stand-in’ compounds, which it was hoped would simulate the behaviour of plutonium compounds in reduction to the element.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 15 Nov. 15/4 Stand-in goalkeeper, Les Northrop, stood between Tonbridge and a hammering at the hands of unbeaten Salisbury.
2015 Times 21 May 19/5 Temporary staffing agencies are ‘ripping off’ hospitals as the bill for stand-in doctors and nurses soars, the leader of the NHS says.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

> as lemmas

stand-in
1. Forming nouns in combination with a verb stem, denoting a protest in which a number of people carry out the action expressed by the first element, e.g. camp-in, hate-in, kiss-in, kneel-in, pray-in, sew-in, stand-in, wade-in; occasionally with an adjective as the first element, e.g. fat-in, gay-in, nude-in. Also forming nouns designating a participant in the protest or gathering, e.g. kneeler-in, wader-in.Originally, in the early 1960s, such protests were carried out by African Americans against racial segregation in the United States.See also die-in n., fish-in n., live-in n. 2, love-in n. 1, paint-in n., read-in n.2 1, sick-in n., sleep-in n. 1, stall-in n., streak-in n. at streak v.2 Derivatives, swim-in n.
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1960 Newsweek 16 May 34/1 Into the already-roiled waters of the South, Negroes will wade this summer in a campaign to break down segregation at public beaches—a wade-in counterpart to the widespread lunch-counter sit-ins of recent weeks.
1960 in Amer. Speech (1961) 36 282 Negro college students have initiated a new ‘kneel-in’ campaign..by attending services at white protestant Atlanta churches.
1961 in Amer. Speech 36 282 He called for walk-ins in art galleries and museums, drive-ins at segregated motels and roadside ice cream stands, sit-ins in court rooms, study-ins at segregated schools, and bury-ins to integrate cemeteries.
1961 in Amer. Speech 36 282 Negro teen-aged boys in an impromptu swim-in at an undesignated beach drew a crowd of 300 shoving, shouting Memorial Day bathers and boaters yesterday.
1963 Time 30 Aug. 12 The ‘pray-in’ at churches.
1967 Daily Tel. 3 Mar. 23/7 A ‘kiss-in’ to protest against Michigan University's stern regulations on ‘public displays of affection’ was described by students last night as the most enjoyable form of demonstration yet devised.
1967 Observer 11 June 10 If everyone was fat there'd be no war. No one would pass the physical.—A speaker at the New York Central Park ‘Fat-in’.
1967 Listener 10 Aug. 188/3 This is a very exciting inversion of psychedelic soulfulness, a hate-in.
1968 Lebende Sprachen 13 68/1 Their action fits into a wave of unofficial, unconnected nude-ins so far this year in Golden Gate Park, starting with freebeachers dancing nude at the great be-in.
1968 N.Y. Times 26 May 71/3 As illustrated by the extra squads of policemen patrolling the Capitol, there is a latent fear in Congress that the camp-in will set off violence.
1970 Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chron. 20 May 10 c/4 A march to Central Park for a ‘gay-in’.
1973 Daily Tel. 3 Dec. 13/8 College catering would be disrupted by students alternately boycotting canteens and then holding mass eat-ins.
1991 Chicago Tribune 30 Nov. i. 5/3 Gay rights activists staged a ‘marry-in’ at the County Building's Marriage Bureau.
2003 Oxf. Amer. Jan. 22/1 Aleck's Barbecue Heaven in Atlanta, where Martin Luther King Jr. and his lieutenants plotted marches and sit-ins, kneel-ins, and wade-ins.
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n.adj.1870
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