take someone's place

English

Verb

take someone's place (third-person singular simple present takes someone's place, present participle taking someone's place, simple past took someone's place, past participle taken someone's place)

  1. To replace someone or something.
    • 1951 March, E. J. Tyler, “Post-War Recovery on the Netherlands Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 154:
      Because of the shortage of rolling stock, services on many lines could only be introduced gradually, and buses took their place in the meantime.
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