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• ĭn-stěd'
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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈstɛd/
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• Australian: /ɪnˈsted/
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• Northumbria: /ɪnˈstiːd/
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• rhymes with -ɛd
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N S T EH1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From in + stead, from Middle English ine (“in”) + stede (“stead”). Related to German statt.

84 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: në vend të — in the place of (it)
• Albanian: në vend që — in the place of (it)
• Arabic: بَدَلاً مِن (badalan min) — in the place of (it)
• Aramaic: ܚܠܦ (ħlap) — in the place of (it)
• Assamese: -অৰ সলনি (-or xoloni) — in the place of (it)
• Assamese: আনহাতে (anhate) — in the place of (it)
• Bashkir: урынына (urınına) — in the place of (it)
• Bengali: পরিবর্তে (poriborte) — in the place of (it)
• Breton: kentoc'h — in the place of (it)
• Bulgarian: вме́сто (vmésto) — in the place of (it)
• Chinese Mandarin: 代替 (dàitì) — in the place of (it)
• Chinese Mandarin: 抵作 (dǐzuò) — in the place of (it)
• Coptic: ⲁⲛⲧⲓ (anti) — in the place of (it)
• Czech: namísto — in the place of (it)
• Czech: místo toho — in the place of (it)
• Danish: i stedet — in the place of (it)
• Danish: i stedet for — in the place of (it)
• Dutch: in plaats daarvan — in the place of (it)
• Esperanto: anstataŭe — in the place of (it)
• Finnish: asemasta — in the place of (it)
• Finnish: sen sijaan — in the place of (it)
• Finnish: sen sijasta — in the place of (it)
• Finnish: tilalle — in the place of (it)
• French: à la place — in the place of (it)
• French: au lieu de — in the place of (it)
• French: plutôt — in the place of (it)
• German: stattdessen — in the place of (it)
• German: anstatt — in the place of (it)
• Greek: αντί (antí) — in the place of (it)
• Hebrew: במקום — in the place of (it)
• Hindi: के बजाय (ke bajāy) — in the place of (it)
• Hungarian: helyette — in the place of (it)
• Hungarian: inkább — in the place of (it)
• Hungarian: hanem — in the place of (it)
• Icelandic: í staðinn — in the place of (it)
• Icelandic: í stað þess — in the place of (it)
• Indonesian: malah — in the place of (it)
• Irish: ina ionad — in the place of (it)
• Irish: ina áit — in the place of (it)
• Italian: in luogo di — in the place of (it)
• Italian: invece — in the place of (it)
• Italian: al posto di — in the place of (it)
• Japanese: ...の代わりに (...no kawari-ni) — in the place of (it)
• Korean: 대신에 (daesine) — in the place of (it)
• Macedonian: наместо (namesto) — in the place of (it)
• Macedonian: место (mesto) — in the place of (it)
• Malay: sebaliknya — in the place of (it)
• Norwegian: isteden — in the place of (it)
• Norwegian: i staden — in the place of (it)
• Norwegian: i stedet — in the place of (it)
• Polish: zamiast — in the place of (it)
• Portuguese: em vez de — in the place of (it)
• Portuguese: ao invés de — in the place of (it)
• Portuguese: antes — in the place of (it)
• Romanian: în loc de — in the place of (it)
• Russian: вме́сто того́ (vmésto tovó) — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: место — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: misto — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: мјесто — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: уместо — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: умјесто — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: mesto — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: misto — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: mjesto — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: umesto — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: umjesto — in the place of (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: u zamjenu — in the place of (it)
• Sicilian: mmeci — in the place of (it)
• Sicilian: scanciu — in the place of (it)
• Slovene: namésto — in the place of (it)
• Spanish: en vez de — in the place of (it)
• Spanish: en lugar de — in the place of (it)
• Spanish: en vez de ello — in the place of (it)
• Spanish: en lugar de aqueso — in the place of (it)
• Spanish: mejor — in the place of (it)
• Spanish: en su lugar — in the place of (it)
• Swedish: istället — in the place of (it)
• Thai: แทน (taen) — in the place of (it)
• Turkish: yerine — in the place of (it)
• Ukrainian: нато́мість (natómistʹ) — in the place of (it)
• Venetan: invése — in the place of (it)
• Venetan: invéze — in the place of (it)
• Venetan: inveẑe — in the place of (it)
• Vietnamese: thay vì — in the place of (it)