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take someone's place

take someone's place verb: to replace someone or something.

Verb

take someone's place (third-person singular simple present takes someone's place, present participle taking someone's place, simple past took someone's place, past participle taken someone's place)

  1. To replace someone or something.
    • Because of the shortage of rolling stock, services on many lines could only be introduced gradually, and buses took their place in the meantime.1951 March, E. J. Tyler, “Post-War Recovery on the Netherlands Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 154

Forms of take someone's place

third-person singular presenttakes someone's place
present participletaking someone's place
pasttook someone's place
past participletaken someone's place

Origin of take someone's place

take + someone's place

Questions about take someone's place

What does take someone's place mean?
Take someone's place means to replace someone or something.
What part of speech is take someone's place?
Take someone's place is a verb.
What is the past tense of take someone's place?
The past tense of take someone's place is took someone's place.

Words near take someone's place in the dictionary

  1. take someone's fancy
  2. take someone's head off
  3. take someone's life
  4. take someone's name in vain
  5. take someone's part
  6. take someone's place
  7. take someone's point
  8. take someone's word for it
  9. take something as it comes
  10. take something as read
  11. take something in one's stride

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