I. WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS

VII. CHANGE

1. SIMPLE CHANGE

[Change of one thing for another] Substitution.

[Nouns] substitution, commutation; supplanting; metaphor, metonymy (figure of speech) [more].

[Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.

representative (deputy) [more]; palimpsest.

price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.

[Verbs] substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into the shoes of, stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.

[Adjectives] substituted; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious.

[Adverbs] instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.