LOCUM Synonyms

• the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced

• the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)

• (law) redress awarded by a court

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• assistance in time of difficulty

• a pause for relaxation

• a change for the better

• aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped

• the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

• sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background

• the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged

• the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another

• someone who takes the place of another person

• an event in which one thing is substituted for another

• a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another

• filling again by supplying what has been used up

• a person who follows next in order

• a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another

• an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team

• serving or used in place of another

• artificial and inferior

• put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

• be a substitute

• act as a substitute

• not permanent; not lasting

• a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis

• lacking continuity or regularity

• someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession