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verb (used with object), -placed, -plac·ing.

to compel (a person or persons) to leave home, country, etc.

to move or put out of the usual or proper place.

to take the place of; replace; supplant: Fiction displaces fact.

to remove from a position, office, or dignity.

Obsolete. to rid oneself of.

Origin:
1545–55; dis-¹ + place, perhaps modeled on Middle French desplacer

Related forms

dis·place·a·ble, adjective

pre·dis·place, verb (used with object), -placed, -plac·ing.

un·dis·place·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
2. relocate. Displace, misplace mean to put something in a different place from where it should be. To displace often means to shift something solid and comparatively immovable, more or less permanently from its place: The flood displaced houses from their foundations. To misplace is to put an object in a wrong place so that it is difficult to find: Papers belonging in the safe were misplaced and temporarily lost. 4. depose, oust, dismiss.

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That's one reason robotics researchers do not believe that robots will displace humans any time soon.

The intern works under close staff supervision and does not displace regular employees.

Singapore's need is to displace water to make way for land.

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That's one reason robotics researchers do not believe that robots will displace humans any time soon.

The intern works under close staff supervision and does not displace regular employees.

Singapore's need is to displace water to make way for land.

It could change our maps, and displace people from cities and tropical islands.

If the crown was made partly of an alloying metal of lower density than gold then it would displace more water as specified.

The input starts base-pairing with the gate and can eventually displace the output molecule.

Corporations are starting to displace cities as the chief underwriters of public firework events.

The answer is to find a new place for the oppressing group to live, to give them a new homeland that does not displace anyone.

The idea that violence will erupt as drought and rising sea levels displace people from their.

This, plus rising sea levels, threatens to displace an entire community.

People in isolated groups sometimes displace their intra-group tension and anger to the monitoring people on the outside.

Because the coffins displace dirt as your body is screwed in, no digging is required, and no earth is left over.

In the process, it will displace some existing businesses.

Indeed, it is able to displace water and thus adhere to surfaces in aqueous solutions.

That's the actual weight of the water the ship would displace and thus the weight of the ship itself.

Those peaks displace what we'd thought of as space for.

By manipulating the voltage, two facing polymers can be made to displace the fluid housed within them.

But death rates varied, depending on the sources of protein and fat used to displace carbohydrates.

Indeed, it is able to displace water and thus adhere to surfaces even underwater.

Illegal products deceive the consumer and displace legitimate sales.

The latter event can displace water vertically and thus generate a tsunami.

In his absence, two or three other hustlers arrived to displace him.

Once an industry standard has been established, it is hard to displace.

Being lighter than water, oil will displace the sea water on the inside of the dome.

They do so by employing a variety of chemical bonds to displace the water, right down to the last molecule.

Eventually, office use may displace residential use, as it has often before.

There also exists little evidence that immigrants displace native workers.

All windmills and solar panels will do is displace a small amount of natural gas load follow and peaking plants.

Online communities of faith will not displace traditional forms of religious life.

Whether this was because hours shorten, wages fall or low-paid jobs displace well-paid jobs, they could not tell.

But, while our cities certainly displace the former environment, they also create new ecosystems.

Though entomologists worry that this imported species may displace native varieties, the beetles are more beneficial than not.

Wars can suddenly displace millions of people who may start off as refugees but end up as migrants.

Nor did the tremendous challenge of scaling up these technologies to displace fossil fuels enter the debate.

It is an uncomfortable vision, but one that has a strange power to displace all others.

The dollar is flawed, but so are the candidates to displace it.

Yes cuts are painful because they will displace people from jobs n the public sector.

Enforcement is at best able to displace the market a few hundred yards, and to keep a lid on it.

As time goes on, more and more machinery will displace the jobs of humans.

Such candidates may only receive a few dozen votes, but still displace rivals who got hundreds of times as many.

The relative price changes easing causes displace spending one core items.

Various attempts to regulate monopolies tend to displace one type of inefficiency with the other.

It has caused reverence for religious belief to displace respect for scientific learning and knowledge.

Personal entertainment--television especially--began to displace other more constructive.

Attempts to regulate monopolies tend to displace one type of inefficiency with the other.

These undervalued products probably displace domestically made goods on your store shelves.

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World English Dictionary

displace (dɪsˈpleɪs)

—vb
1.	to move from the usual or correct location
2.	to remove from office or employment
3.	to occupy the place of; replace; supplant
4.	to force (someone) to leave home or country, as during a war
5.	chem to replace (an atom or group in a chemical compound) by another atom or group
6.	physics to cause a displacement of (a quantity of liquid, usually water of a specified type and density)

dis'placeable

—*adj*

dis'placer

—n

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Word Origin & History

displace

1550s, from O.Fr. desplacer, from des- "dis-" + placer "to place." Related: Displaced. Displaced person refugee is from 1944.

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"Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause."

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