LIEU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lieu mean? 

• LIEU (noun)
  The noun LIEU has 1 sense:

1. the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

  Familiarity information: LIEU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIEU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

lieu; place; position; stead

Context example:

in lieu of

Hypernyms ("lieu" is a kind of...):

function; office; part; role (the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lieu"):

behalf (as the agent of or on someone's part (usually expressed as 'on behalf of' rather than 'in behalf of'))

 Context examples 

Mrs. Grant offered herself as companion for the day to Lady Bertram in lieu of her son, and Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was broad day—eight or nine o'clock; the storm raging, in lieu of the batteries; and someone knocking and calling at my door.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Indicates that a person has received a General Equivalency Diploma in lieu of a high school diploma.

(General Equivalency Diploma Completion, NCI Thesaurus)

She had many acquaintance in the place, for her father was universally civil, but not one among them who could be accepted in lieu of Miss Taylor for even half a day.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was evidently his intention to play with them,—a lesson, I took it, in lieu of a beating, though a dangerous lesson, for the frail craft stood in momentary danger of being overwhelmed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His own father did not long survive mine, and within half a year from these events, Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the preferment, by which he could not be benefited.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But when she read and re-read with the closest attention, the particulars immediately following of Wickham's resigning all pretensions to the living, of his receiving in lieu so considerable a sum as three thousand pounds, again was she forced to hesitate.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)