Dictionary Entry
substitution
substitution is a 12-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.
- 2noun
The state of being substituted for another.
- 3noun
The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.
- 4noun
The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him.
- 5noun
The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.
- 6noun
The act or process of substituting an atom or radical for another atom or radical; metethesis; also, the state of being so substituted. See Metathesis.
- 7noun
the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"
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- 8noun
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
"the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
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