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lieu

[ UK /lˈuː/ ]
[ US /ˈɫju, ˈɫu/ ]
NOUN
  1. the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
    took his place
    can you go in my stead?
    in lieu of

How To Use lieu In A Sentence

  • The baronetage of Nova Scotia was devised in 1624 as a means of promoting the "plantation" of that province, and James announced his intention of creating a hundred baronets, each of whom was to support six colonists for two years (or pay 2000 marks in lieu thereof) and also to pay 1000 marks to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
  • On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
  • Historically, 95 percent of lieutenants become captains.
  • Au lieu de discuter, l'employée du restaurant aurait du faire le canard! French Word-A-Day:
  • I bid you goodnight, Lieutenant. Man of Honour
  • Le bibliomane ne connait ordinairement les livres que par leur titre, leur frontispice, et leur date; il s'attache aux bonnes editiones et les poursuit à quelque titre que ce soit; la relieure le seduit aussi, soit par son ancienneté, soit par sa beauté, "&c. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
  • Sadly, I must concede, that it was an understandable response in that milieu.
  • Flynn said Hilton denied owning a small plastic "bindle" containing 0.8 grams of cocaine powder that the police lieutenant said fell out when Hilton opened the purse to get a tube of lip balm. CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports
  • Nopalitos also fare well in stews with other vegetables, and, in lieu of the celebration of Lent, with red meats. Nopales, tunas and pitayas
  • Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein provides a vivid account of what it was like to endure carpet-bombing.
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