Synonym: lieu, place, position. Similar words: steady, instead, steadily, unsteady, instead of, homestead, steadfast, unsteadily. Meaning: [sted] n. the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
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31. It is not the only time my profound knowledge of football has stood me in good stead.
32. James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce, but it stood him in poor stead.
33. Insomnia would stand him in good stead in this expanse of knee-high cover.
34. This habit of work, which is by now natural to me, has stood me in good stead.
35. Those contacts, he says, still serve him in good stead today.
36. Others, including Stead, attacked the bill for increasing the arbitrary power of the police on the streets.
37. I've experienced more now, and it's going to stand me in good stead.
38. Lawrence Plotkin says that his undergraduate psychology notes stood him in very good stead for his graduate studies at Columbia.
39. If some one would die in Admetus' stead, he could live.
40. Despite his lack of political experience, Clouthier's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead.
41. Mr Stead was middle-aged and paunchy,(sentencedict.com) with deep shadows under his eyes and square rimless glasses.
42. They deny their own law, denying my right, and the precedent is there to stead them in the next encroachment.
43. Teaching the 3 R's is what schools do best, and what no other form of education can do in their stead.
44. However, it is one that, if you take the trouble to learn properly, will stand you in good stead.
45. Farrington Stead dealt in gilt-edged securities, investments also offered by Barlow Clowes which went into liquidation in June 1988 owing £190million.
46. Learn to overcome your shyness: it will stand you in good stead for the rest of your life.
47. Price stead on the commodity market.
48. I'll go in his stead.
49. I've always felt that solid experience would stand me in good stead.
50. Now, in stead of football players, think engineers, physicians, designers, scientists, administratiors.
51. In stead of people starving, the average standard of living rose.
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52. He came close to the painter and looked stead - fastly into his stern eyes.
53. My grandmother and aunt will be there in my parents' stead.
54. And after his death, Adad the son of Badad reigned in his stead, who defeated the Madianites in the country of Moab: and the name of his city was Avith.
55. Cadres should be elected in stead of appointment by teachers.
56. While the chief is away, another director will act on his stead.
57. If cases given therapeutically in stead of prophylactic, not only medical resources are wasted, resistant strain of the bacteria may be induced.
58. Thus, the portfolio of indexation fund should be guided by passive in stead of active investment.
59. We prefer to do mainly sprint and little long distance running in stead of weight training.
60. To produce engineering plastics wiper blade in stead of metal materials can improve the brushing effect of products except simple process technology and low cost of products.
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