take someone's place

verb

To replace someone or something.

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Meanings

verbtake someone's place (third-person singular simple present takes someone's place, present participle taking someone's place, simple past took someone's place, past participle taken someone's place)

present singular third person takes someone's place · participle present taking someone's place · past took someone's place · participle past taken someone's place

  1. To replace someone or something.

    Because of the shortage of rolling stock, services on many lines could only be introduced gradually, and buses took their place in the meantime.

    1951 March, E. J. Tyler, “Post-War Recovery on the Netherlands Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 154

Origin

From take + someone's place.

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