Usually means: Substitute temporarily for someone else.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word stand in:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. stand in: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stand-in, stand in: Merriam-Webster
  3. stand-in, stand in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stand-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stand-in, stand-in, stand in: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stand-in, stand in: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stand-In, Stand-in, stand-in: Wordnik
  8. stand-in, stand in: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stand-in, stand in: Wiktionary
  10. stand-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stand-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stand-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stand-in, stand in: Dictionary.com
  14. stand in (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stand-in: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stand-In, Stand-in, Stand-in (disambiguation), The Stand In (Seinfeld), The Stand-In (TV series), The Stand-In (album), The Stand-In (upcoming film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. stand-in, stand in: Rhymezone
  18. stand-in, stand in: FreeDictionary.org
  19. stand-in, stand in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. stand-in, stand in: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. stand-in: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand-in, stand in: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand-in, stand in: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stand in: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stand in, stand in: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stand-in: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stand_ins as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stand in)

noun:  A substitute; a replacement.
verb:  To substitute for; to replace; (theater) to serve as an understudy.
verb:  To make one of a party in a bet or other speculation.
verb:  To take a side in a dispute.
verb:  (archaic, slang, transitive) To cost (an amount).

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