fill-ins

• agents
• alternates
• apologies
• assignees
• assistants
• attorneys
• backups
• commissaries
• covers
• delegates
• deputies
• designated hitters
• envoys
• factors
• locum tenentes
• makeshifts
• pinch hitters
• procurators
• proxies
• reliefs
• relievers
• replacements
• representatives
• reps
• reserves
• seconds
• stand-ins
• stopgaps
• subs
• substitutes
• successors
• superseders
• surrogates
• understudies

• fixed personnel
• full-timers
• long-term employees
• main staff
• official members
• originals
• permanent replacements
• permanents
• primary workers
• regulars

• noun
  1. A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
  2. A substitution.
  3. An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
  4. A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
  5. A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
  6. Something added to fill a gap.
  7. Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
  8. A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.

• The studio hired temporary fill-ins for the radio hosts.
• Several experienced fill-ins helped during the busy season.
• The coach relied on skilled fill-ins after injuries affected the team.
• Teachers appreciated the dependable fill-ins at the school.
• The production company used body fill-ins during rehearsals.

backups

understudies

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