(formal)
IDIOMS
in lieu (of sth) instead of:
They took cash in lieu of the prize they had won. * We work on Saturdays and have a day off in lieu during the week.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lieu is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lieu a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lieu is tagged as noun.
Does lieu appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — lieu appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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