lieu

[loo] /lu/

noun

place; stead.

Idioms

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 lieu

Below, a note advises check writers to use their dental records in lieu of the usual forms of identification.
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.
Others release stylized art in lieu of standard press pictures.
But in lieu of some economic recovery, that kind of margin might not hold.
The trend is being fueled partly by improvements in the digital sensors that capture images in lieu of film.
Unfortunately, the media has not been doing their job of demanding actual evidence in lieu of opinion.
In lieu of a smoking gun, a more complex picture of autism's environmental causes is now emerging.
In order to allow them to move across flat landscapes, the scientists inserted motors that could supply power in lieu of gravity.

British Dictionary definitions for lieu

/ljuː; luː/

noun

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 lieu

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

Idioms and Phrases with lieu

see under instead of