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in place of

in place of preposition: instead of.

Preposition

in place of

  1. instead of
    • In place of snappy banter, there is cod philosophy about destiny and choice, and in place of Lalo Schifrin's adrenaline-pumping classic theme, there are orchestral minor chords on the soundtrack.2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC
    Synonyms:
    in lieu of

in place of meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

in place of in Hindi

in place of, instead of
की जगह kī jagah

in place of in Tamil

அவ்விடத்தில், பதிலாக

in place of in Marathi

in place of
दाखल dākhal, बद्दल baddal

in place of in Bengali

in place of
বজায় bojaẏ
More languagesFewer languages
in place of in Malayalam
പകരം pakaraṁ
in place of in Arabic
مَكَانَ makāna, بَدَلًا مِنْ badalan min
in place of in Vietnamese
thay vì, thay cho

Synonyms of in place of

Questions about in place of

What does in place of mean?
In place of means instead of.
What is in place of in Hindi?
In place of in Hindi is की जगह (kī jagah). See In place of meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is in place of?
In place of is a preposition.

Words near in place of in the dictionary

  1. in petto
  2. in phase
  3. in piety
  4. in pig
  5. in place
  6. in place of
  7. in places
  8. in plain sight
  9. in plain view
  10. in play
  11. in plenty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in place of (page history and authors); की जगह (Hindi) (page history and authors); in place of (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दाखल (Marathi) (page history and authors); বজায় (Bengali) (page history and authors); പകരം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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