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- 1. take over the place, position, or role of: "he believes that books may be displaced by the electronic word" Similar
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The meaning of DISPLACE is to remove from the usual or proper place; specifically : to expel or force to flee from home or homeland. How to use displace in a sentence.
DISPLACE definition: 1. to force something out of its usual or original position: 2. to force someone to leave their…. Learn more.
6 meanings: 1. to move from the usual or correct location 2. to remove from office or employment 3. to occupy the place of;.... Click for more definitions.
Learn the meaning of displace, a verb that means to force something or someone out of their usual or original position or place. See how to use displace in sentences and find synonyms, antonyms and translations in different languages.
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When you displace something, you move it to a new position — either in a concrete sense, like moving a chair, or in an abstract sense, like firing someone from a job.
be displaced (by something) Check for roof tiles that have been displaced by the wind. displace somebody (especially North American English) to remove somebody from a job or position. displaced workers; displace something (physics) (especially of a ship) to take the place of an amount of liquid when put or floating in it, used as a way of ...
3 displace something to move something from its usual position Check for roof tiles that have been displaced by the wind. 4 displace somebody to remove someone from a job or position displaced workers; See displace in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
