লক্ষ্য করুন: এই এন্ট্রির অনুবাদ বর্তমানে মান পর্যালোচনার অধীনে রয়েছে, তাই কিছু বিষয়বস্তু সাময়িকভাবে শুধুমাত্র ইংরেজিতে প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে।
এই এন্ট্রিটি এখনও আপনার ভাষায় অনুবাদ করা হয়নি, তাই নিচে মূল লেখাটি দেখানো হচ্ছে।
stead
This term functions primarily as a formal substitute for a person's position or role. It is rarely used in isolation and almost exclusively appears within the fixed prepositional phrase "in someone's stead," which conveys a sense of official replacement or delegation. It carries a more dignified and archaic tone than the common word "instead," though they share the same linguistic root.
Grammatically, the word is treated as an uncountable noun because it refers to an abstract state of replacement rather than a physical object that can be enumerated. You cannot have "three steads" or "a few steads"; it exists only as a singular conceptual space occupied by a proxy.
Meanings
Examples
I will attend the meeting in my manager's stead.
Since the king was ill, the prince ruled in his stead.
She stepped in to lead the project in his stead.
The vice president spoke in the president's stead.
He was asked to fight in the place of another, acting in his stead.
Who will stand in my stead while I am away on vacation?