in one's stead

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English

Prepositional phrase

in one's stead

  1. (formal) In place of someone or something.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 36:1:
      Then the people of the land tooke Iehoahaz the ſon of Ioſiah, and made him King in his fathers ſtead in Ieruſalem.
    • 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
      In December 2020 the Matlock branch services, which currently run through to Newark, will be cut back to Nottingham, but in their stead EMR will extend the hourly Crewe to Derby service through to Newark Castle.

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