steadnoun
uk/sted/us/sted/in sb's stead formal
in place of someone:
The marketing manager was ill and her deputy ran the meeting in her stead.
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Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargain sth away
- change over
- change places idiom
- fill
- name
- part exchange
- pinch-hit
- pre-empt
- proxy
- rep
- represent
- reserve
- sit
- succeed
- succession
- supersede
- supplant
- swap
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stand sb in good stead
→ standsb in good stead
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move on
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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