Example: The recipe says you can substitute yogurt for the sour cream.
In this sentence, it means you can use yogurt to replace sour cream? or the opposite?
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substitute for= use or add in place of smth.
That’s why in your case - you can use yogurt instead of the sour cream.
Another example: A construction which may sustitute for a word is a phrase.
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You can use either in the recipe. Is is saying instead of using sour cream you can use yogurt. You would be replacing the sour cream with yogurt
A teacher is out sick a substitute replaces the sick teacher for the day. Substitute is a replacement