sit in forsomeone
phrasal verbwithsitverbuk/sɪt/us/sɪt/present participlesitting|past tense and past participlesat
to take theplaceof someone who wouldnormallydo aparticularjobor go to aparticularmeeting:
Mr Baker isilltoday, soMissDixon issittingin for him (asyourteacher).
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargainsomethingaway
- change over
- instead
- instead of
- lieu
- make up forsomething
- name
- rep
- represent
- shoe
- sing
- someone'sanswer tosomeone/somethingidiom
- spare
- step intosomeone'sshoesidiom
- step into the breachidiom
- sub outsomething
- substitution
- succeed