stead
sted
- n the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
can you go in my stead?
- So companies like Blackwater began offering those services--at a high price--in the military's stead.
- Now Maggie Teyte will see whether her studied musicianship will stand her in as good stead as once her pretty legs and elfish personality did.
- Still, the announcement itself was about as shocking as hearing that Barack Obama would be skipping the Inauguration and sending Joe Biden in his stead.