understudies in English

noun
1
(in the theater) a person who learns another's role in order to be able to act as a replacement at short notice.
We should've just gotten an understudy for her role!
synonyms:stand-insubstitutereplacementreservefill-inlocumproxybackupreliefstandbystopgapsubpinch-hitter
verb
1
learn (a role) or the role played by (an actor).
he had to understudy Prospero
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1. Couldn't go on with the performance even with the understudies because of the police coming in.

2. Going to the customary class and talk isn't the mutually advantageous methodology for Attainting the credit of splendid understudies

3. Brinkhurst (Lebanon, TN) - papers he authored or co-authored during his exemplary career (30+ years) as a global Annelid systematist and untiring mentor to countless understudies of oligochaete …