lieu

[loo] /lu/
noun
1.
place; stead.
Idioms
2.
in lieu of, in place of; instead of:
He gave us an IOU in lieu of cash.
Origin
1250-1300; < Middle French < Latin locus place; replacing Middle English liue < Old French liu < Latin; see locus
Examples from the web for in lieu of
  • Trade winds instead of air conditioning, whistling frogs and cooing doves in lieu of house band.
  • in lieu of time travel, real travel can take us back into the past and help us understand a lost world.
  • So is the red skullcap he often wore over his short-cropped hair, in lieu of a formal wig.
  • It will be gone and you will have nothing valuable in lieu of it.
  • Below, a note advises check writers to use their dental records in lieu of the usual forms of identification.
  • Others release stylized art in lieu of standard press pictures.
  • But in lieu of some economic recovery, that kind of margin might not hold.
  • He stands on a ladder in lieu of a podium and starts rattling stuff off.
  • They're working part time in lieu of a full-time job or because their full-time hours were cut back.
  • They spoke as if coming back were something in lieu of accomplishment, something for idle, unoccupied people.
British Dictionary definitions for in lieu of

lieu

/ljuː; luː/
noun
1.
stead; place (esp in the phrases in lieu, in lieu of)
Word Origin
C13: from Old French, ultimately from Latin locus place
Word Origin and History for in lieu of

lieu

late 13c., from Old French lieu "place, position, situation, rank," from Latin locum (nominative locus) "place."

Idioms and Phrases with in lieu of

in lieu of

see: instead of

lieu

see under instead of