Stead in a sentence as a noun

And , and the fact they are hard to tell apart, the units are placed in stead of the .

Hopefully the people who carry on in your stead are a bit more careful.

I hope that if my work ever does garner good attention those lessons will stand me in good stead.

Perhaps more companies should be valued based on revenue in stead of API calls/month etc.

If an epub was available, I would have spent the time writing this comment by filling out my credit card details in stead.

Please be aware that Celsius is not a SI unit, Kelvin is used in stead as the standard temperature unit.

While with enough force you could pirate a sea-stead, bear in mind that it would be a lot harder than the piracy you hear about in the news.

The bad news is that it is also basically the exact list of countries that the seasteading effort is trying to get away from.

My point being that Britain had long endured a stifling of written discourse, possibly encouraging verbal discourse in its stead.

Hence, the consumer protection law kicks in, allowing the state to pursue action in their stead because it is far more cost-effective.

All land on earth is claimed by a state in some fashion, its much easier to sea stead than to deal with the politics of claiming political independence.

The good news is that the list of countries with a credible ability to mount a military assault on a seasteading platform is short.

I think this man thought he was untouchable and acted accordingly, deciding to be a celebrity instead of a quiet hero.

It has stood me in great stead in every endeavor - fundraising, contracts, partnerships, customers, office space leasing, personal sanity maintenance, you name it.

Mostly carnivorous guy here; I have started playing around with the use of tofu and mushrooms in stead of meat and have come to the realization that it is actually a lot easier to substitute them for meat.

Piracy against a sea-stead would be more like mounting an armed assault on a remote village at the very least, with an existing police force, one probably created with awareness of the possibility of piracy.

As a former Muslim atheist, Jesus Christ!Assuming there's nothing you can do to escape your pending jail term, I would suggest getting your legal person to draw up some sort of agreement where someone can run the business and keep the profits in your stead.

I have an applicable anecdote:\n.. in tersei worked 120hrs in a week, \nwas refused overtime by splitting my duties into three 40hr positions, \ndid research, \nwent to the DOJ, \nthey sat on it for 9 months, \nthen refused and threatened me, \ni sent the DOJ lawyer's secretary my research, \nshe went over his head, \nand i got the pay due to me..i lost a job in nyc, \nat the time of employment i was 'wearing many hats' which really just meant i was doing the work of three people: \nmanaging five properties, running a catering service, doing the accounting at four of the five properties;i was putting in 14-18 hour days 7 days a week, \ni was homeless and was just glad to have something to do instead of sleeping on the F line, \nalso.. making moneythe way the payroll avoided paying me overtime was by splitting my check into these three different positions,\nby doing this i could work 90-120 hours a week, \nmy 'personal best' was 123 but individually each of my personalities would be working less than 40 hoursthe firing was abrupt, ugly and full of calculated politicsi was upset and wanted validation of my hard work so i went to the local library and looked up NYC wage lawsi found out that forbidding this 'task splitting' tactic is baked right into the law so i knew i had a case for getting the overtime i felt i deserved,\nagain, i was homeless so i spent countless hours in the stacks looking over legal decisions to find precedencei even covered potential roadblocks along the lines of 'we are unable to find his old timecards' from my former employer by investigating the law as it pertains to how long documents on employees must be kept by an employerconfident in my case i went to the DOJ,\nthey appointed me a lawyer,\nand he assured me he'd look into it9 months later and i still have yet to hear anything,\ni was told it may take 30days to 6 months, and i had moved on emotionally at this point so i was giving the guy the benefit of the doubt,\nat 9 months i decided it was time to do my own follow up,\nlawyer is unable to remember me or my case and has to call me back in a week after he finds my old file,\nexplains that he did an investigation consisting of interviewing the owner of the establishment who claimed he paid all overtime wages and interviewing random employees who all said they were paid what was owed them,\nhis conclusion?

Stead definitions

noun

the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"

See also: position place lieu