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insteadadverb

uk/ɪnˈsted/us/ɪnˈsted/

A2 in place of someone or something else:

There's no coffee - would you like a cup of tea instead?

More examples

  • I'm going to drop yoga and do aerobics instead.
  • How on earth could they knock down a lovely old building like that and put a car park there instead?

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Replacing and exchanging

  • alternate
  • alternatively
  • bargain sth away
  • change over
  • change places idiom
  • fill
  • part exchange
  • pinch-hit
  • pre-empt
  • proxy
  • refill
  • rep
  • represent
  • reserve
  • sit
  • succeed
  • succession
  • supersede
  • supplant
  • swap

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insteadadverb [ not gradable ]

us/ɪnˈsted/

rather than; as an alternative:

If we don’t go to Europe this summer, where would you like to go instead (= what other place would you like to go)?
We went by train instead of by car.
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