insteadadverb
uk/ɪnˈsted/us/ɪnˈsted/A2 in place of someone or something else:
There's no coffee - would you like a cup of tea instead?
More examples
- I'm going to drop yoga and do aerobics instead.
- How on earth could they knock down a lovely old building like that and put a car park there instead?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargain sth away
- change over
- change places idiom
- fill
- part exchange
- pinch-hit
- pre-empt
- proxy
- refill
- rep
- represent
- reserve
- sit
- succeed
- succession
- supersede
- supplant
- swap
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