Lieu

Definition: Lieu

Lieu

Noun

1. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another: "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lieu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Lieu

Interchange

Adverb: instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.

Place

Noun: place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook; (corner); hole; pigeonhole; (receptacle); compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode; locality; (situation).

Substitution

Adverb: instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.

Crosswords: Lieu

French (inducement, lieu, locale, locality, location, locus, motive, occasion, place, room, scene, spot, venue).

In lieu of a parachute, here's a hanky. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna)

Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois (1950)

Rochers-de-Naye sur Caux. Le concours de ski au printemps a eu lieu par un temps magnifique (1928)

A la recherche du lieu de ma naissance (1990)

Le Lieu du crime (1986)

La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Place for Art/UN Lieu Pour L'Art: The Artchitectre of the National Gallery of Canada (reference)

• In Lieu of (reference)

• In Lieu of Flowers: A Conversation for the Living (reference)

• In lieu of Mecca (reference)

• La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Brahms:Vioolconcert/Tchaikovsky:Souvenir d'un lieu cher (reference)

• Souvenir D'un Lieu Cher (reference)

• Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto/Sérènade Mélancolique/Souvenir D'un Lieu Cher (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Portable vans used in lieu of installed laboratory space on many ships Vans on PEIRCE during phosphate studies off North Carolina.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Placez vos médicaments in lieu sûr : apprenez � vos enfants qu'un médicament n'est pas une friandise.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

With Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (center) and Admiral Ernest J. King at the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., in January 1944. He had just been presented with a gold star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal.Credit: NAVY.

Is congratulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from whom he has just received a Gold Star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal, in ceremonies at the White House, April 1942.Credit: NAVY.

With Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (center) and Admiral Ernest J. King at the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., in January 1944. He had just been presented with a gold star in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal.Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

No constable shall compel any knight to give money in lieu of castle-guard, when he is willing to perform it in his own person, or (if he himself cannot do it from any reasonable cause) then by another responsible man. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Often, drug abusers come into contact with the criminal justice system earlier than other health or social systems, and intervention by the criminal justice system to engage the individual in treatment may help interrupt and shorten a career of drug use. Treatment for the criminal justice-involved drug abuser or drug addict may be delivered prior to, during, after, or in lieu of incarceration. (references)

He was not eligible for the clinical trial and asked if FDA could please get the drug for him or make the company give it to him. After explaining that FDA cannot compel a company to supply a product, an FDA staff member, trained to work with cancer patients, spent many hours on the phone with this patient over the course of a week, explaining sources of information regarding kidney cancer clinical trials and helping him to understand options he might pursue in lieu of the trial he was not eligible to enter under the company's protocol. (references)

Children

Cameroon

In June the Cooperative of the Handicapped Persons of Cameroon occupied two abandoned government residences in Yaounde and Douala in order to have locations where the cooperative could lead its social activities in lieu of scarce resources. (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

Dede paid $1,373 for his initial conviction ($559 (207,000 drachma) in fines and $811 (300,000 drachma) in lawyer's fees) in lieu of 2 months' jail time and appealed his case to the Supreme Court. (references)

Burma

In addition the Army reportedly no longer takes rations with it, and rather lives off of local villagers often by force, although villagers reportedly were permitted to provide monetary compensation in lieu of such work. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

The accounting law permits foreigners to capitalize tangible and intangible assets in lieu of cash capital investment. (references)

Colombia

In the meantime, the Department of State provides a certificate that U.S. companies may offer in lieu of a statement certifying reciprocity. (references)

Guinea

In lieu of a constitution, the government was initially based on ordinances, decrees and decisions issued by the President and various ministers. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

In April 2000, Sharif was found guilty of hijacking and terrorism and sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment (to be served consecutively), an unspecified fine, 5 years' rigorous imprisonment in lieu of nonpayment of the fine, forfeiture of all property, and a fine to compensate the 198 passengers and crew of the flight. (references)

Political Economy

PHILIPPINES

After the ITH period, a special five percent tax on gross income in lieu of all national and local taxes will apply. (references)

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Unions in enterprises determined to be of "essential public interest," including utilities, public health, and telecommunications, may be ordered to submit to government-ordered arbitration in lieu of striking. (references)

Political Rights

Georgia

The local governments elected in November 1998 were expected to have more authority over local government; however, lack of funding from the central government (in lieu of an independent tax base), corruption, and the absence of legislative guidelines have made it difficult for them to exercise authority. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

A pro-forma invoice is acceptable in lieu of a commercial invoice. (references)

Uae

However, a payment of a deposit or submission of a bank guarantee in lieu of duty is required by customs. (references)

Travel

Egypt

For residents, a deposit, refunded upon departure, may be made in lieu of customs fees. (references)

Ecuador

When a parent is deceased, a notarized copy of the death certificate is required in lieu of the written authorization. (references)

Venezuela

Messenger delivery is the best choice within Caracas and other large cities in lieu of the mail (for correspondence, invitations to receptions, etc). (references)

Worker Rights

El Salvador

The remaining 23 workers accepted severance pay in lieu of reinstatement. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

They do not pay union dues, but are required to pay a 1 percent agency fee in lieu of dues, which entitles them to union protection by Histadrut's collective bargaining agreements. (references)

Korea

By law unions in enterprises determined to be of "essential public interest," including public transportation, utilities, public health, banking, and telecommunications can be ordered to submit to government-ordered arbitration in lieu of striking. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "lieu": in lieu ♦ in lieu of ♦ lieu in ♦ transfer of something in lieu of payment. Additional references.

Albanian

në vend të (for, in lieu of, in place of, instead, instead of, vice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بدل (allowance, apposition, change, exchange, quid pro quo, recompense, shift, sit, substitute, supersede, switch, treadle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вместо (for, in lieu of, instead, instead of), наместо (in lieu of). (various references)

Czech

místo èeho (in lieu of). (various references)

Danish

levering i betalings sted (dation en paiement, giving in payment, transfer of something in lieu of payment), Raadet fastsaetter ligeledes alle godtgoerelser,der ydes som vederlag (the Council shall also determine any payment to be made in lieu of remuneration), datio in solutum (dation en paiement, giving in payment, transfer of something in lieu of payment), afspadsering (time off in lieu), afrundingsbeløb (cash in lieu of fraction). (various references)

Dutch

vervangende kinderbijslag (allowance in lieu of child benefit), inhaalrust (time off in lieu), inbetalinggeving (dation en paiement, giving in payment, transfer of something in lieu of payment), identiteitsbewijs voor minderjarige,dat als paspoort geldt (minor's travel document in lieu of passport), de Raad stelt eveneens alle vergoedingen vast welke als beloning kunnen gelden (the Council shall also determine any payment to be made in lieu of remuneration). (various references)

Farsi 

عوض (Recompense, Reparation, Stead, Substitute, Surrogate), جا (Berth, Case, Emplacement, House, Locality, Location, Lodge, Place, Receptacle, Room, Seat, Site, Situation, Socket, Space, Station, Stead, Vacancy, Vacantness), درعوض (Instead), بجای (For, Stead). (various references)

Finnish

sijaissuoritus (dation en paiement, giving in payment, transfer of something in lieu of payment). (various references)

French

lieu. (various references)

German

anstatt (in lieu of, in place of, instead of). (various references)

Greek 

ρεπό (day in lieu, day off, time off), ποσό στρογγυλοποίησης (cash in lieu of fraction), αντί (anti, instead, instead of, lieu in), ταυτότητα ανηλίκου υπέχουσα θέση διαβατηρίου (minor's travel document in lieu of passport), το Συμβούλιο καθορίζει επίσης κάθε αποζημίωση που επέχει θέση αποδοχών (the Council shall also determine any payment to be made in lieu of remuneration). (various references)

Hebrew 

במקום (for, in lieu of, in place of, instead of, vice). (various references)

Hungarian

vmi helyett (in lieu of sg, instead of sg). (various references)

Indonesian

pengganti (alternate, substitute, surogate). (various references)

Italian

luogo (area, country, district, ground, locality, location, loco, passage, place, position, scene, site, space, spot, stead, terrain). (various references)

Manx

'syn ynnyd jeh (in lieu of), ayns ynnyd jeh (in lieu of, in place of, instead of). (various references)

Pig Latin

ieulay

Portuguese

lugar (emplacement, first of all, function, job, location, place, place to sit, position, post, pound, room, seat, site, spot, stead, thorp, where), lienteria. (various references)

Romanian

loc (accommodation, billet, blank, corner, estate, field, job, locality, location, locus, place, point, position, post, quarter, region, room, seat, site, spot, stand, standing, station, stead, where). (various references)

Russian 

вместо (for, in lieu, in lieu of, in place of, in the room of, instead, instead of, vice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umesto (instead of, lieu: in lieu of, place: in place of, vice), na mestu (lieu: in lieu of). (various references)

Spanish

lugar (account, disposal, hostel, inducement, investment, locale, locus, motive, occasion, place, point, reason, room, scene, site, space, spot, stead, village), local (local, locally, place, premises, regional, vernacular), lejo, edificio (building, construction, edifice, erection, outbuilding, place, premises), observación (comment, diagnosis, investigation, keeping, look out, note, observation, remark, sighting), hogar (family household, firebox, fireplace, fireside, furnace, grate, hearth, home, household, interior, menage), gobierno (administration, decemvir, government, guidance, handling, polity, ruling, running, steering, stewardship), aforo, esfera (area, arena, ball, clock, dial, Diapason, face, field, globe, plane, province, purview, realm, round, sphere), parte (allotment, bit, Cantel, Cantle, communique, component, crumb, deal, despatch, detail, device, dial, dispatch, district, doormat, element, end, episode, faction, fragmemt, granule, kernel, lot, part, Parthian, partition, party, patch, percentage, piece, place, point, portion, proportion, quantum, report, role, section, share, side, slice, some, spot, substance, the part, way, whack), colocación (attachment, billet, collocation, disposal, disposition, employment, investment, job, job placement, location, placement, placing, positioning, putting away, putting up, seating, setting, situation), casa (apartment, building, casa, dwelling house, edifice, flat, home, homestead, hostel, house, houseful, household, interior, menage, pad, place), calificación (description, label, Mark, marking, qualification, score), cámara (breast, cam, camera, cameraman, chamber, cine camera, hall, head space in a bottle of wine, house, innertube, room, stope, tire, tyre, vault, working face), asiento (bedding, chair, consolidation, entry, flange, mounting base, place, seat, seating, set, settlement, settling, sinking, sitting, socket, subsidence, trim), ambicioso (ambitious, ambitiously, aspiring, careerist, eager, grandiose, pushful, pushing), aldea (dorp, hamlet, village), fortaleza (fastness, Fort, fortitude, fortress, stronghold), puesto (barn, booth, cadre, chair, degree, employment, enclosed, envelope, established, flooring, hide, imposition, imprisonment, inserted, installation, job, laid, landed, lined, on, opening, pitch, place, position, post, rating, shed, shop, site, stall, stand, station), vigor (animal spirits, energy, forcefulness, hardiness, lustiness, vigor, vigour, zip), vez (mark, occasion, place, time, turn), trozo (chunk, cluster, extract, fragment, gob, offcut, passage, piece, portion, scrap, section, segment, slice), trabajo (assignment, chore, craft, diploma, discourse, dissertation, effort, elaboration, employ, enterprise, job, labor, labour, mark, occupation, ploy, task, toil, work, working), tienda (boutique, forum, gastronomy, gourmet, shop, store, tent), sitio (installation, investment, locale, location, place, position, room, seat, siege, site, space, spot, website), serie (a serialized drama, array, battery, broadcast on radio or television, classificatory array, continuation, daisy chain, Mark, order, pack, procession, raft, range, run, sequence, serial, series, series-seriation, set, soap opera, step, string, succession, train, usually dealing with domestic themes and characterised by sentimentality), oficina (bureau, business office, office, shop), rango (class, degree, grade, position, range, rank, rating, state, to rank, wrestled), parada (boasting, by-pass lane, check, checking, detention, halt, lay-by, parade, Parry, passing bay, passing place, pen, pull up, rank, relay, save, shutting down, stake, stand, standstill, stop, stoping, stoppage, stopping place, tripping, turn-out), pueblo rural, propósito (aim, design, desire, diagram, end, intent, intention, line, object, plan, plane, project, proposition, purpose, resolution, resolve, scheme, tender, thing), progreso (advance, advancement, amelioration, breakthrough, development, headway, improvement, progress, tide), posición (attitude, bay, fix, footing, lie, location, perch, place, point, position, rank, stance, stand, standing, status, storage location, switch bay), plaza (arena, chair, curtilage, Piazza, pithead, place, plaza, pp, public square, seat, shop, square, surface), pedazo (bit, Cantel, chunk, end, hunk, lump, morsel, nub, piece, spare part, wedge), zona rural (rural area), refugio (Alpine hut, asylum, climber's hut, cover, covert, divisional island, harborage, harbourage, haven, housing, mountain hut, pied a terre, place of refuge, refuge, retreat, safety island, sanctuary, traffic island). (various references)

Swedish

rådet skall också fastställa alla betalningar som görs i stället för ersättning (the Council shall also determine any payment to be made in lieu of remuneration), i stället för (in lieu of, in place of, instead of), i stället (in lieu, instead), datio in solutum (dation en paiement, giving in payment, transfer of something in lieu of payment). (various references)

Turkish

yerine (in lieu, in lieu of, in place of, instead, instead of, vice), karşılık olarak (in answer to, in exchange for, in lieu, in place of, in return), bedel olarak (in exchange for, in lieu of). (various references)

Ukranian 

місце (appointment, office, place, placing, point, position, room, seat, situation, spot, station). (various references)

Vietnamese 

$in lieu of$ thay thế v� o. (various references)

datio in solutum. (various references)

lieu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lieu": lieus, lieutenancies, lieutenancy, lieutenant, lieutenants. (additional references)

Words ending with "lieu": milieu, purlieu. (additional references)

Words containing "lieu": milieus, milieux, purlieus, sublieutenant, sublieutenants. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lieu" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alieu, Elihu, Iau, ieu, ileh, Ileo, ileu, Ilhu, iue, laiu, Laou, Lciii, Lebeau, Leeeee, leeo, Leeuw, leia, leii, leiu, leius, leu, leui, leuu, Lgiu, liai, liau, libea, licea, Liceu, Licua, Lidu, lieb, liec, lieg, Lieh, liei, liem, lieud, lieue, lieus, lieut, Lieuw, lieux, liew, liex, liey, liez, liii, lilu, lineful, liou, lious, Lipu, liqu, Liqun, liru, Lisu, litu, liu, liue, Liyun, lizu, lufu, lviii, Lykeio, lyo, mieu, Nieuw, Nieux, Pleiku, rieu, Rieux, slieu, tieu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lei, leu, lie.

-2 letters: el, li.

+1 letter: guile, ileum, ileus, lieus, louie, utile.

+2 letters: aculei, audile, clique, dilute, duelli, eluvia, fusile, futile, gluier, glutei, guiled, guiles, helium, illume, ireful, jubile, leucin, ligule, ligure, lineup, louies, luckie, luetic, luggie, lunier, lunies, lupine, lutein, milieu, muesli, nubile, nuclei, outlie, pileum, pileup, pileus, pilule, plutei, reguli, rulier, rutile, sluice, telium, tuille, uglier, uglies, unlike, unlive, unpile, unveil, uppile.

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