DISPLACE

move, displace

(verb) cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; “Move those boxes into the corner, please”; “I’m moving my money to another bank”; “The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant”

displace

(verb) cause to move, usually with force or pressure; “the refugees were displaced by the war”

displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate

(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; “The boss fired his secretary today”; “The company terminated 25% of its workers”

preempt, displace

(verb) take the place of or have precedence over; “live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour”; “discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

displace (third-person singular simple present displaces, present participle displacing, simple past and past participle displaced)

To put out of place; to disarrange.

To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.

To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.

To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.

(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.

(psychology) to repress

Source: Wiktionary


Dis*place", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Displacing.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + place: cf. F. déplacer.]

1. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

2. To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.

3. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

4. To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [Obs.] You have displaced the mirth. Shak.

Syn.

– To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SUSPECT

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