Definitions
the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
Word origin
From Middle English sted, stede (noun) and steden (verb), from Old English stede, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, location”). Doublet of stad.
Used in a sentence
“His nurse had told him all about changelings, and how the little people would always try to steal a beautiful human child out of its cradle and put in its stead one of their own ailing, puking brats […]”
“Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead.”
“One may not expect to entirely stop the oncoming energy but the outgoing stands in a different stead, for in this a certain amount of ruling is possible by the native.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“In place of”5 letters
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