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11there is no substitute for something — phrase used for saying that nothing else is good or useful enough to replace something There’s no substitute for experience. Thesaurus: bestsynonym Main entry: substitute …
12there's no substitute for doing sth — there s no substitute for sth/doing sth ► nothing else is as good as the stated thing or action: »In this industry, there s no substitute for experience. Main Entry: ↑substitute …
13there's no substitute for sth sth — there s no substitute for sth/doing sth ► nothing else is as good as the stated thing or action: »In this industry, there s no substitute for experience. Main Entry: ↑substitute …
14there's no substitute for sth/doing sth — ► nothing else is as good as the stated thing or action: »In this industry, there s no substitute for experience. Main Entry: ↑substitute …
15there is no substitute for something — used for saying that nothing else is good or useful enough to replace something There s no substitute for experience …
16as a substitute for a parent — index loco parentis Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
17substitute — n 1 surrogate, *resource, resort, expedient, shift, makeshift, stopgap Analogous words: *device, contrivance, contraption: duplicate, copy, *reproduction 2 Substitute, supply, locum tenens, alternate, understudy, double, stand in, pinch hitter… …
18substitute — ▪ I. substitute sub‧sti‧tute 1 [ˈsʌbsttjuːt ǁ tuːt] noun [countable] 1. something new or different that can be used instead of something else: • Sugar substitutes are used by the soft drinks industry. substitute for • Training is important but… …
19substitute — sub|sti|tute1 [ sʌbstı,tut ] verb ** 1. ) transitive to use something new or different instead of what is normally used: Instead of using silicon, they have substituted a more flexible material. substitute something for something: You can… …
20substitute — I UK [ˈsʌbstɪˌtjuːt] / US [ˈsʌbstɪˌtut] verb Word forms substitute : present tense I/you/we/they substitute he/she/it substitutes present participle substituting past tense substituted past participle substituted ** 1) [transitive] to use… …