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Meanings of understudy in English

Russian
дублер

Stage performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, so as to be their substitute.

        дублер
        Catalan
        suplent

        An actor able to replace a regular performer when required.

              suplent

              Be an understudy or alternate for a role.

                    Usage of understudy in English
                    1
                    He'll replace bin Pacha, who, anyway, surely has an understudy or backup.
                    Man in the Middle
                    2
                    And he became, on Sunday afternoons, a sort of understudy for Catherine.
                    A Modern Chronicle — Volume 01
                    3
                    She's my understudy. She leans in, and rose fragrance prickles Sing's nose.
                    Strange Sweet Song
                    4
                    These were rehearsals; Rogers himself had dropped in also merely as an understudy.
                    A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
                    5
                    There'd been some confusion: Leonidas had actually been auditioning to be the understudy.
                    The Guardian
                    6
                    Being understudy to Ronan O'Gara was both difficult and an invaluable learning experience.
                    The Irish Times
                    7
                    Boris is, almost by definition, a one-off: he has no understudy.
                    The Guardian
                    8
                    Wise is the man who sees to it that he has an understudy.
                    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...
                    9
                    Miriam will have to play it; she's my understudy, you know.
                    Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School / Or, Fast Friends in...
                    10
                    I'm premier danseuse to the Nipponese kiddies and Lady Jenny is my understudy.
                    The House of the Misty Star / A Romance of Youth and Hope and Lo...
                    11
                    But as an understudy for Ananias, Casey Ryan would have been a failure.
                    The Trail of the White Mule
                    12
                    The leading lady, Noreen Kershaw, had taken ill and there was no understudy.
                    The Irish Times
                    13
                    He would make a good understudy for a morgue, and that's about all.
                    The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way"
                    14
                    Sheahan thus has the opportunity to understudy Keith Wood at provincial and national levels.
                    The Irish Times
                    15
                    I'll look back fondly on my understudy days, without a shadow of a doubt.
                    The Guardian
                    16
                    Miranda relinquished the part earlier this year to the actor Javier Munoz, his understudy.
                    The Guardian
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                    suplent
                    Understudy through the time
                    Understudy across language varieties
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