lieu
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7.8
- noun
- /luː/
- Formal
:
en lugar de
- My birthday was last Tuesday, so in lieu of gifts, I will be accepting the Happy Birthday song.
- paid in lieu of
- in lieu of cash
- in lieu of taxes
Whereas strong verbs change the root vowel in lieu of adding an ending.
- Whereas strong verbs change the root vowel in lieu of adding an ending.
- I'm on ivermectin in lieu of vaccination.
- And I think in lieu of that, I enjoy competition.
- One world where they can play video games all night and text friends in lieu of doing homework and going to sleep when they want.
- I believe the gentleman who who he took this land from was Crowley would take land in lieu of payment.
- So now you cannot just do home defense with it because you can actually practice drills in lieu of your range time.
- In lieu of transparency, my therapy meeting got pushed to Saturday, right?
- We have scrapped that entire system in lieu of these gorgeous brushless DC water cooled EV drive systems.
- So today in lieu of our half life disaster, we are going to be reacting to a just watching hanging out.
- OK, so in lieu of playing you the remainder of this video, Kylie, why don't you play what it really should sound like to everybody?
- I love that he is going in lieu of of us.
Examples
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The company provided bonuses in lieu of salary increases this year.
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I thought, maybe in lieu of the gym, you might want to go to dinner with me.
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Which I have done in lieu of getting happy hour with friends.
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I wrote reports on them at school in lieu of book reports.
Fiction book (1992) -
And they had a very hard time getting Yale to pay in lieu of taxes.
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Therefore, in lieu of further instructions, I'm prepared to fall back on my general orders.
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We have a special presentation today in lieu of recess.
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If Lukas would do house maintenance in lieu of some rent, that should suit us both.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Abbe, again tremendously pleased, accepted it in lieu of a year's rent.
Fiction book (1992) -
Instead, polluters would secure credits in lieu of meeting source-specific limits on emission rates.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word lieu comes from an old French word meaning 'place' and is related to English words like location and local. So when you say 'in lieu of' you are saying something takes the 'place' of something else, in other words 'instead of'.