Definition of instead of in English Dictionary

• 介系词 (Preposition)
  1. In lieu of; in place of; rather than.
     1. He walked to school instead of taking the car. ‎
• 更多范例
  1. 用于句中
     • I convinced him to take it out in barter instead of cash.
     • ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
     • The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it.
  2. 用于句首
     • Instead of Punta Cana, its name for the last 27 years, the restaurant was now called Casa de Campo — the same as an ultraluxe resort in the Dominican Republic.
     • Instead of having a nice modular eggcrate, we now want to build an immodular eggcrate. Deliberately we want to impose upon future teachers, not the nice simple eggcrate, but a more complicated one.
     • Instead of default rates, the department calculated nonrepayment rates, which include both defaulters and borrowers who have never paid a single dollar of principal on their loans.

• 词类阶层 (Part-of-Speech Hierarchy)
  1. 介系词

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