What is the meaning of Understudy?

  • (n.) One who studies another's part with a view to assuming it in an emergency.
  • (v.t.&i.) To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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