The word ‘understudy’ is correct and can be used in written English.
Understudy can refer to someone who learns another person’s role in a play, movie, or other production in the event that the original actor or actress is not available. For example, “The director asked the understudy to step in when the lead actress had to take a sick day.”.
The bowling always seems to be of less concern while Australia boasts such varied pace options, though it would be a brave gambler who staked anything on predicting Nathan Lyon's understudy.
In 1942 she was taken on as understudy for Tallulah Bankhead in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth on Broadway.
I don't suppose anyone goes to drama school with the sole intention of being an understudy.
Chris remembers the night well, as he had to go on for the understudy, even though he wasn't covering that part.
As our train rumbles in through suburbia, Chris and I share our all-time understudy horror stories.
Recently, an understudy he knows took over mid-performance after the actor he was covering put his back out, only for the understudy to slip on a discarded fur coat in the wings and break his own leg.
He did not appear on a winning side in the Premier or Football League until December 2006, by which time Peter Taylor was in charge and had offered Gabor Kiraly's understudy the chance to move on "to get some games".
"America plays a part on the world stage for which there is no understudy," the senator and Republican presidential hopeful told a standing-room-only crowd on New York's Upper East Side.
Chris is currently an understudy.
Now president of the Senate, Mr Roman seems too ambitious to remain an understudy for long.
After protests against corruption forced him from office allowing Mrs Arroyo, the vice-president, to take over he bullied his friend Mr Poe into running as a sort of avenging understudy.
