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Displaced Thing Place Position Forces Role Occupies Displaces

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If one thing d________ another, it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself.If one thing displaces another, it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself.
These factories have displaced tourism as the country's largest source of foreign exchange.
Coal is to be displaced by natural gas and nuclear power.
word displace
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If one thing displaces another, it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself.
These factories have displaced tourism as the country's largest source of foreign exchange.
Coal is to be displaced by natural gas and nuclear power.
If a person or group of people is displaced, they are forced to moved away from the area where they live .
In Europe alone thirty million people were displaced.
Most of the civilians displaced by the war will be unable to return to their homes.
...the task of resettling refugees and displaced persons.
inflections displacesdisplacingdisplaced
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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