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Definition:1. a person's job, function or place, normally used in the phrase "in one's stead" meaning as a replacement or substitute, as in "in his place". (instead...)2. advantage (of, for example, a bargaining position) to be "in good stead"
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King: As the good Lord said: "Love thy neighbour as thyself, unless he's Turkish, in which case, kill the bastard!"
narrator: He left behind him his beloved son Prince Harry to rule as Regent in his stead.
BBC. Blackadder, Season 1: Born to be King
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He could commit a murder where he thought it necessary, but he could not let an innocent man suffer in his stead.
Grant Allen. Strange Stories.
---It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love,
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As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of the Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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To get money she began selling her old gloves, her old hats, the old odds and ends, and she bargained rapaciously, her peasant blood standing her in good stead.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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Buck's marvellous quickness and agility stood him in good stead.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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