stand in

— Phrasal Verb with stand

/stænd/ verb (past tense and past participle stood)

Definition

› to do something that someone else was going to do because they cannot be there: She stood in for me when I was sick.

(Definition of stand in from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to express disagreement or refuse to do something

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