Stage performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, so as to be their substitute.
An actor able to replace a regular performer when required.
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Examples for "standby "
1 A further 500 troops are on standby in case needed, Buckles said.
2 A further 500 troops are on standby in case needed, he said.
3 U.S. President Barack Obama said American forces were on standby to help.
4 Both will be on standby once water collection points come into effect.
5 Advisers were on standby to help people budget for new monthly payments.
Be an understudy or alternate for a role.
1 He'll replace bin Pacha, who, anyway, surely has an understudy or backup.
2 And he became, on Sunday afternoons, a sort of understudy for Catherine.
3 She's my understudy . She leans in, and rose fragrance prickles Sing's nose.
4 These were rehearsals; Rogers himself had dropped in also merely as an understudy .
5 There'd been some confusion: Leonidas had actually been auditioning to be the understudy .
6 Being understudy to Ronan O'Gara was both difficult and an invaluable learning experience.
7 Boris is, almost by definition, a one-off: he has no understudy .
8 Wise is the man who sees to it that he has an understudy .
9 Miriam will have to play it; she's my understudy , you know.
10 I'm premier danseuse to the Nipponese kiddies and Lady Jenny is my understudy .
11 But as an understudy for Ananias, Casey Ryan would have been a failure.
12 The leading lady, Noreen Kershaw, had taken ill and there was no understudy .
13 He would make a good understudy for a morgue, and that's about all.
14 Sheahan thus has the opportunity to understudy Keith Wood at provincial and national levels.
15 I'll look back fondly on my understudy days, without a shadow of a doubt.
16 Miranda relinquished the part earlier this year to the actor Javier Munoz, his understudy .
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