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from some server.
- [substituter]{#gloss-substituter}\
- A *substituter* is an additional store from which Nix will
- copy store objects it doesn't have. For details, see the
- [`substituters` option](./command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-substituters).
+ An additional [store]{#gloss-store} from which Nix can obtain store objects instead of building them.
+ Often the substituter is a [binary cache](#gloss-binary-cache), but any store can serve as substituter.
+
+ See the [`substituters` configuration option](./command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-substituters) for details.
[substituter]: #gloss-substituter