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
- of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
- every second one of a series
- serving or used in place of another
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
alternate - thesaurus
alternating
alternative
flip
interchange
jump
replacement
substitute
surrogate
switch
tack
understudy