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taken the place of

taken the place of is the past participle of take the place of.

Meaning of take the place of

Verb

take the place of (third-person singular simple present takes the place of, present participle taking the place of, simple past took the place of, past participle taken the place of)

  1. To supersede; to come to be used instead of someone or something.
    • Computers have taken the place of paper for many everyday office tasks.

Questions about taken the place of

What is taken the place of the past participle of?
Taken the place of is the past participle of take the place of.

Words near taken the place of in the dictionary

  1. taken the mickey
  2. taken the micky
  3. taken the offensive
  4. taken the pee
  5. taken the piss
  6. taken the place of
  7. taken the plunge
  8. taken the point
  9. taken the purple
  10. taken the rap
  11. taken the red eye

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taken the place of (page history and authors); take the place of (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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