Usually means: Substitute, usually inferior in quality.
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  1. ersatz: Merriam-Webster
  2. ersatz: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ersatz: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ersatz: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ersatz: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ersatz, ersatz: Wordnik
  7. ersatz: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ersatz: Wiktionary
  9. ersatz: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ersatz: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ersatz: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ersatz: Dictionary.com
  13. ersatz: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ersatz (album), Ersatz (disambiguation), Ersatz (film), Ersatz: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. ersatz: Rhymezone
  16. Ersatz-: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ersatz: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ersatz: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. ersatz: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. ersatz: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. ersatz: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ersatz: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. ersatz: Legal dictionary

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  1. ersatz: Encyclopedia

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  1. ersatz: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ERSATZ: Solar Radiation Resource Terms

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  1. ersatz: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Made in imitation; artificial, especially of a poor quality.
noun:  Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute.

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