Usually means: Backup performer for main actor.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. understudy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. understudy: Merriam-Webster
  3. understudy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. understudy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. understudy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. understudy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Understudy, understudy: Wordnik
  8. understudy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. understudy: Wiktionary
  10. understudy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. understudy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. understudy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. understudy: Dictionary.com
  14. understudy (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. understudy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Understudy (Inside No. 9), The Understudy (Seinfeld), The Understudy (novel), Understudy (Smash), Understudy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Understudy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. understudy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. understudy: Rhymezone
  20. understudy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. understudy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. understudy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. understudy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understudy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understudy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understudy: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To study or know a role to such an extent as to be able to replace the normal performer when required.
▸ verb:  To act as an understudy (to someone).
▸ verb:  To act in a similar manner to some known person.
▸ noun:  A performer who understudies; a standby for a study (9).

Similar:
standby, alternate, body double, copilot, puppeteer, mastermind, lector, proctor, dramaturge, host, more...

Phrases:
being an understudy, job understudy, more...

Adjectives:
young, good, general, new, competent, former, little, first, capable, mere, second


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Similar:
standby, alternate, body double, copilot, puppeteer, mastermind, lector, proctor, dramaturge, host, more...

Phrases:
being an understudy, job understudy, more...

Adjectives:
young, good, general, new, competent, former, little, first, capable, mere, second



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