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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

lieu
    n 1: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or
         served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his
         place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place,
         lieu]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Lieu \Lieu\ (l[=u]), n. [F., OF. also liu, leu, lou, fr. L.
   locus place. See Local, Locus.]
   Place; room; stead; -- used only in the phrase in lieu of,
   that is, instead of.
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         The plan of extortion had been adopted in lieu of the
         scheme of confiscation.                  --Burke.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

LIEU, place. In lieu of, instead, in the place of.

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