- to move from the usual or correct location
- to remove from office or employment
- to occupy the place of; replace; supplant
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dis•placed
(dis plāst′),USA pronunciation adj.
n.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026- lacking a home, country, etc.
- moved or put out of the usual or proper place.
n.
- (used with a pl. v.) persons who lack a home, as through political exile, destruction of their previous shelter, or lack of financial resources (usually prec. by the):After the earthquake, the displaced were temporarily housed in armories.
- displace + -ed2 1565–75
dis•place /dɪsˈpleɪs/USA pronunciation
v. [~ + object], -placed, -plac•ing.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- to compel (someone) to leave home or country:a faceless bureaucracy that displaces the people.
- to move or put out of place:to displace a joint.
- to take the place of;
replace:trying to displace me in my job.
dis•place
(dis plās′),USA pronunciation v.t., -placed, -plac•ing.
dis•place′a•ble, adj.
- 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.
- [Obs.]to rid oneself of.
- dis-1 + place, perh. modeled on Middle French desplacer 1545–55
- 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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displace /dɪsˈpleɪs/ vb (transitive)
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- United States of America
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- autocorrelation
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- dispossessed
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- relaxation
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