Etymologies
- From French au lieu, from Latin locus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If you are currently a slave to your fifteen-dollar-a-week mochalattechococcino habit, you may enjoy clearer, smoother skin in as little as two weeks simply by upgrading to truly hydrating brews in lieu of dehydrators like coffee.”
“Posner writes that he is not persuaded by Glaesers proposal for quasiworker cooperatives in lieu of the conventional business corporation.”
“I am also not persuaded by Glaesers proposal for quasiworker cooperatives in lieu of the conventional business corporation.”
“The market share of these corporate oligopolies was so great that they could compensate for declining sales and low productivity by raising prices and turning out shoddier products in lieu of lowering prices and improving quality.”
“Heather Rogers, author of a book about garbage called Gone Tomorrow, writes that “industry accepted recycling in lieu of more radical changes like bans on certain materials and individual processes, production controls, minimum standards for product durability, and higher standards for resource extraction.””
“She hoisted her overnight bag onto the bed with a thud, unzipped it, and rummaged through it, naming each item in lieu of conversing: “Nightgown, robe, hairbrush, toothbrush, toothpaste, face junk …””
“Sarna seemed to view it as a challenge, maintaining his speed and playing with the gears in lieu of braking.”
“Don Zimmer also made a change: in lieu of the light-hitting Frank Duffy, he sent right fielder, and right-handed-hitter, Dwight Evans to the plate.”
“The Falkland Islands once supported an endemic species of fox, but the Falkland fox was “incurably unsuspicious of man,” according to one authority, and in lieu of being cured it was extinguished.”
“• Provide cast-in-place concrete structure in lieu of steel structure for home and visitor side grandstands and increase capacity to 8,000 seats: $2.1 million”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘in lieu’.
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bianca's euphonic list
paprika, poignant, poignancy, viscous, subtlety, robust, vehicular, combustion, viscosity, velocity, rotunda, malignant and 18 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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Idioms or Phrases or "expressions"
like nobody's bui..., soap up, plug away, country club, horse whisperer, cease and desist, eye of the beholder, small-claims court, nut job, heebie-jeebies, hole in the wall, black-tie and 101 more...
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usage
whenever I'm not sure about correct usage of a word. For some words, I confuse their meanings, for others I'm never sure how to write them down. So, whenever I find myself going to wordnik searchin...
thus, ameliorate, bespoke, misanthrope, contempt, resolute, in lieu, mean, ephemeral, ubiquitous, dismal, admonishing and 81 more...
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Champ721 In lieu is a French phrase roughly translated into "instead of."
"I received Pepsi in lieu of Coca-Cola from the vending machine." Oct 1, 2009