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  1. adjective Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial: ersatz coffee made mostly of chicory. See Synonyms at artificial.

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  • Sadd had seated himself on the porch (I can't bring myself to use the ersatz-elegant "Florida Room") and had folded the _Times_ into quarters, a habit that dated back to his commuting days on the New York, New Haven and Hartford. —  Working Murder
  • Ehomba was almost done, his fingers cramped from fingering the holes atop the flute and his lips numb from blowing into the mouthpiece. —  Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • Everyone's hungry; except for the ersatz coffee, a week's food ration doesn't last two days. —  The Diary Of A Young Girl
  • He might not be using this one; as she recalled, it was smallish, as small as the ersatz apartment she had built for herself. —  The Chrome Borne
  • Djuluva had decided to undertake the creation of an ersatz-man, a simulacrum she could hold in perpetual thrall, to satisfy her every whim. —  Conan the Fearless
 

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  1. German, replacement, from ersetzen, to replace, from Old High German irsezzan : ir-, out; see ud- in Indo-European roots + sezzan, to set; see sed- in Indo-European roots.
 

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