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displace::verb | Spocien Dictionary
displace::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | preempt |
| Type of | supersede, supplant, replace, supervene upon |
displace::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | can, dismiss, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| Type of | remove |
| Has types | send away, send packing, drop, retire, dismiss, lay off, pension off, furlough, squeeze out, clean out |
Examples of displace
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Since then, my family and I have been displace while the house is being rebuilt.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The technique could also see aluminium displace caesium as the standard of time.
From the newscientist.com
Obviously hypothetical because BTC would never displace the tangible currencies.
From the economist.com
For ink to spray from the cartridge, air must enter to displace the removed ink.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Fracking fluid is used to displace oil and gas from formations deep underground.
From the huffingtonpost.com
Oil palms displace native plant and animal species in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.
From the guardian.co.uk
To displace the Sacred Texts in the moral and intellectual life of its audience.
From the guardian.co.uk
I do agree though that it shouldn't displace any of the ones currently on there.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Congress, the court reasoned, did not mean to displace traditional state powers.
From the time.com
- Cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war"
- Preempt: take the place of or have precedence over; "live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour"; "discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor"
- Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- Move: 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"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"
- (displacement) supplanting: act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
- (displacement) shift: an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- A ship's displacement is its mass at any given time, generally expressed in metric tons or long tons. The term is often used to mean the ship's mass when it is loaded to its maximum capacity. ...
- Displaced is a 2006 British feature film produced by Skylandian Pictures. Produced by Mark Strange and directed by Martin Holland, the film took six years to make and secured a US distribution deal with Silverline Entertainment at the end of 2005.
- (Displacement (engine)) Engine displacement is the volume swept by all the pistons inside the cylinders of an internal combustion engine in a single movement from top dead centre (TDC) to bottom dead centre (BDC). ...
