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Noun stead has 1 sense
  1. stead, position, place, lieu - the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"
    --1 is a kind of function, office, part, role
    --1 has particulars: behalf

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Term: stead

Part of Speech: Noun

Sense: A place or position occupied by a person or thing

Usage: She took her brother's stead in the game.

Example Sentence: He stood in his father's stead as the head of the family business.

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Part of Speech: Noun

Sense: The office, position, or function of a substitute

Usage: He served as a writer in stead of his sick colleague.

Example Sentence: During her absence, Mark held the stead of the team's captain.

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Part of Speech: Adverb

Sense: In place of; instead.

Usage: He couldn't attend the meeting, so I went in his stead.

Example Sentence: She didn't want to go to the party, so she sent her friend in her stead.

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