Term: locum tenens: someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: factoid: something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: sharecropper: small farmers and tenants
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: arsenal: all the weapons and equipment that a country has
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: sone: a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: superphylum: (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: conveyance: document effecting a property transfer
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: cerebral cortex: the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: hole: an opening deliberately made in or through something
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: praetorship: the office of praetor
Broader: stand-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Unrelated: sodium carboxymethyl cellulose: a gummy substance that is a sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose; used as a thickening or emulsifying agent