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alternate


alternate - noun

  • someone who takes the place of another person

    • alternate - verb

    • go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
    • exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
    • be an understudy or alternate for a role
    • reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
    • do something in turns

    alternate - adjective

    • every second one of a series
    • serving or used in place of another
    • occurring by turns; first one and then the other
    • of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired

    alternate - thesaurus

    alternating   alternative   flip   interchange   jump   replacement   substitute   surrogate   switch   tack   understudy  

    Scrabble score for alternate

    a is 1 l is 1 t is 1 e is 1 r is 1 n is 1 a is 1 t is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 9

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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