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US
/dɪsˈpɫeɪs/
]
[ UK /dɪsplˈeɪs/ ]
[ UK /dɪsplˈeɪs/ ]
VERB
-
take the place of or have precedence over
discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor
live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour -
cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
Move those boxes into the corner, please
The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant
I'm moving my money to another bank -
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
The company terminated 25% of its workers
The boss fired his secretary today -
cause to move, usually with force or pressure
the refugees were displaced by the war
How To Use displace In A Sentence
- Now there is positive air displacement - the worker wears a helmet and it blows fresh air from a filter pack on his back or on his belt, and there is a battery pack.
- The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
- Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
- The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
- Mohammad Sajjad/Associated Press A displaced child, whose family fled from the Khyber tribal region due to military operations, held onto her mother while waiting to register at the Jalozai camp on the outskirt of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday. Asia in Pictures
- Buchannan, at least, I think he can't displace; the man was practically an asymptote. "Edge Of Darkness" (2010)
- The single engine, semi-displacement hull form with deep forefoot and a long deep keel actually more closely resembles Down East-style workboats and cruisers.
- Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
- There will just be a standing wave created between one place and another, as all points on the wave would have zero net displacement.
- Perceptual displacement of cues modulated performance of the prospective component but not the retrospective component.
