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stead

/sted/US // stɛd //UK // (stɛd) //

踏实,稳健,稳住,踏实的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
    • : Obsolete. a place or locality.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to be of service, advantage, or avail to.

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Examples

  • Water Authority board members can designate other members agency to vote in their stead – as a proxy – if they’re absent.

  • In 2020, Spears requested through her lawyer that Montgomery be made conservator in her father’s stead, and that a bank be appointed as a conservator of her estate.

  • Miss Manners recommends that next time, you helpfully suggest a ride-share app — or another hapless relative — in your stead.

  • Each of the 24 directors can designate another member agency to vote in its stead at the Water Authority board meetings if they can’t make it.

  • A professional conservator has acted in his stead in the meantime.

  • When Adele won Best Solo Pop Performance, Sediuk stormed the stage, attempting to accept the award in Adele's stead.

  • Rather than saying a prayer, he asked those with ears to hear to say a prayer in his stead.

  • In his stead today is Mohamed Morsi, a member of a party whose slogan is “Islam is the solution.”

  • But would that modus operandi of old hold him in good stead with the “three-ring policy circus” he faces?

  • In the world of endless second chances, he will have to revive that plan or offer another one in its stead.

  • Certainly in that year I learned much and acquired from my chief business habits which have stood me in good stead since.

  • Nor would it be just for you to forgive him because another son of yours was willing to be punished in his stead.

  • Organisation was his first work, and his former experience of irregular warfare in Poland stood him in good stead.

  • He did come,—a big, gran' man, wid a look which made me glad Miss Dory was in heaven 'stead of livin' wid him.

  • Thus, though King James be at last excluded, his Subjects reign in his stead.