ersatz

ersatz
Synonyms and related words:
affected, agent, alike, alternate, alternative, analogy, aped, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, backup, bastard, bogus, brummagem, change, changeling, colorable, colored, comparison, consimilar, copied, copy, counterfeit, counterfeited, deputy, distorted, double, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, equal, equivalent, exchange, factitious, fake, faked, FALSE, falsified, favoring, feigned, fictitious, fictive, fill-in, following, forged, garbled, ghost, ghostwriter, hokey, homogeneous, identical, illegitimate, imitated, imitation, junky, like, locum tenens, make-believe, makeshift, man-made, metaphor, metonymy, mimicked, mock, nearly reproduced, next best thing, not unlike, personnel, perverted, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pinchbeck, plagiarized, pretended, provisional, proxy, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, relief, replacement, representative, resembling, reserve, reserves, ringer, second string, secondary, self-styled, sham, shoddy, sign, similar, simulacrum, simulated, smacking of, so-called, soi-disant, something like, spare, spares, spurious, stand-in, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, suggestive of, superseder, supplanter, supposititious, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, synthetic, temporary, tentative, third string, tin, tinsel, titivated, token, twisted, unauthentic, understudy, ungenuine, uniform with, unnatural, unreal, utility, utility player, vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, warped

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  • Ersatz- — Ersatz …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • ersatz — [ ɛrzats ] n. m. • v. 1914, répandu 1939; mot all. « remplacement » 1 ♦ Anciennt Produit alimentaire qui en remplace un autre de qualité supérieure, devenu rare. ⇒ succédané. Ersatz de café. 2 ♦ Fig. et vieilli Ce qui remplace (qqch. ou qqn) en… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Ersatz — is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement. Although it is used as an adjective in English, Ersatz can function in German only as a noun on its own, or as a part in compound nouns such as Ersatzteile (spare parts) or… …   Wikipedia

  • Ersatz — ist das Wiederbeschaffen von etwas Fehlendem oder Verlorengegangenen oder aber das Nutzen anderer Dinge zum Erreichen desselben Zwecks. Der Begriff wird in unterschiedlichem Zusammenhang benutzt, unter anderem Allgemein: Surrogat, ein Ersatz für… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • ersatz — is a German loanword meaning ‘a substitute or imitation’ and is first recorded in English in 1875. It is still used, often in attributive position (before a noun, e.g. ersatz coffee / an ersatz culture), and is pronounced in a somewhat non… …   Modern English usage

  • ersatz — (adj.) 1875, from Ger. Ersatz units of the army reserve, lit. compensation, replacement, substitute, from ersetzen to replace, from O.H.G. irsezzen, from ir , unaccented variant of ur + setzen to set (see SET (Cf. set) (v.)). As a noun, from 1892 …   Etymology dictionary

  • ersatz — ► ADJECTIVE 1) (of a product) made or used as an inferior substitute for something else. 2) not real or genuine: ersatz emotion. ORIGIN German, replacement …   English terms dictionary

  • Ersatz — Ersatz, so v.w. Schadenersatz …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Ersatz — Ersatz, s. Haftung, Schadenersatz; E. in militärischer Beziehung, s. Ersatzwesen …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Ersatz — Ersatz, Ersatzwesen, die Ergänzung des durch regelmäßige Entlassung, Krankheiten oder feindliche Waffen herbeigeführten Abgangs der Mannschaften für Heer und Marine. – Ersatzbehörden (Vertreter der Militär und Zivilverwaltung) regeln den E.;… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • ersatz — index artificial, counterfeit, imitation, spurious, succedaneum, synthetic, vicarious (substitutional) …   Law dictionary

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