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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
substitution
/ˌsʌbstɪˈtjuːʃən/
noun
a person or thing acting or serving in place of another; to put (a person or thing) in the place of another.
- “No one will notice the substitution.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))