THESAURUS
third string
agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, back seat, backup, cast, change, changeling, company, comparison, complement, copy, counterfeit, crew, deputy, double, dummy, eight, eleven, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake, fill-in, first string, first team, five, ghost, ghostwriter, humbleness, humility, imitation, inferiority, juniority, locum tenens, lowliness, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, minority, next best thing, nine, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, platoon, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, ringer, rowing crew, second fiddle, second string, second team, secondariness, secondary, servility, sign, spares, squad, stand-in, string, sub, subjection, subordinacy, subordination, subservience, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, team, token, understudy, utility player, varsity, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent
