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Definition of instead of in English Dictionary

• Préposition
  1. In lieu of; in place of; rather than.
     1. He walked to school instead of taking the car. ‎
• Plus d'exemples
  1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
     • The efficacy of our nanomicrobicides may have been restricted by the SHIV/macaque model, because siGag and siLTR are both target HIV sequences instead of SIV sequences.
     • Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
     • He remapped the variable in the code to hold the value directly, instead of a pointer to the value.
  2. Utilisé au début de la phrase
     • Instead of injecting conservative outlooks into academia, scholars should target the overpoliticization of their work.
     • Instead of having a nice modular eggcrate, we now want to build an immodular eggcrate. Deliberately we want to impose upon future teachers, not the nice simple eggcrate, but a more complicated one.
     • Instead of default rates, the department calculated nonrepayment rates, which include both defaulters and borrowers who have never paid a single dollar of principal on their loans.

• Partie du discours Hiérarchie
  1. Prépositions

Other Vocabulary

1. en astern of
2. en steady on
3. en in aid of
4. en instanton
5. en unheard of