Synonyms:
stead, position, place, lieu
Meaning: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"
Usage examples
The Lord Chancellor rules the kingdom in my stead.
His previous experience stood him in good stead there.
Half-King was dead, and White Thun-der reigned in his stead.
Thereupon Lazarus took the log, threw it away, and laid himself down in its stead.
Take me and all that I can give you in his stead, and the world never shall know the truth.
Hearing this story of myself diverted me at the time, but I fully believe it has served me in good stead since.
And now he took the high priesthood away from Matthias, and made Elioneus, the son of Cantheras, high priest in his stead.
And as I gazed yet more eagerly the map faded quite away, and there lay in its stead the smiling face of an enchanted land.
It was Manstin's friend with the Earth Ear and the old grandfather. "Here Manstin, take back your eyes," said the old man, "I knew you would not be content in my stead, but I wanted you to learn your lesson.
It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.