Antonyms for displace
dɪsˈpleɪsdis·place

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1. displace

   Objects are displaced when moved out of the place they have occupied; they are misplaced when put into a place where they should not be. One may know where to find what he has misplaced; what he has mislaid he can not locate.

   Antonyms:
   adjust, array, assort, classify, dispose, group, order, place, put in order, put in place, set in order, sort

   Synonyms:
   confuse, crowd out, derange, disarrange, disturb, jumble, mislay, misplace, remove, unsettle

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1. • Move
   • Remove
   • Replace

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1. displaceverb

   cause to move, usually with force or pressure

   "the refugees were displaced by the war"

   Synonyms:
   terminate, move, give the axe, fire, sack, preempt, can, dismiss, give notice, send away, give the sack, force out

2. preempt, displaceverb

   take the place of or have precedence over

   "live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour"; "discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor"

   Synonyms:
   terminate, move, give the axe, fire, sack, preempt, can, dismiss, give notice, send away, give the sack, force out

3. displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminateverb

   terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

   "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

   Synonyms:
   throw out, kindle, notify, depose, advise, gouge, go off, give the axe, burn, tin, can, apprize, rout out, plunder, enkindle, give the sack, put up, sack, end, give the bounce, evict, elicit, discount, finish, move, fire, stop, arouse, drive out, crowd out, brush off, squeeze out, give notice, open fire, usher out, send packing, send word, apprise, dissolve, push aside, dismiss, give the gate, raise, clear, ignore, provoke, sack up, burn down, cease, squirt, rouse, brush aside, discharge, evoke, fuel, force out, preempt, eject, terminate, disregard, drop, send away, net

4. move, displaceverb

   cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense

   "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"

   Synonyms:
   go, send away, be active, actuate, make a motion, locomote, strike, prompt, can, give notice, sack, move, propel, give the sack, motivate, force out, dismiss, impress, affect, run, proceed, preempt, act, incite, terminate, travel, give the axe, fire

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1. displaceverb

   Synonyms:
   remove, disarrange, supplant, supersede

How to use displace in a sentence?

1. President Obama:

   The purpose of legal immigration should be to grow the economy, not displace American workers, under no circumstances should legal immigration levels be adjusted upwards so long as work-force participation rates remain below historical levels.

2. Julie Metcalf Kinney:

   The tactics we are facing, of sneaky and illegal foreclosure tactics, predatory banking and loans, elected judges who take campaign contributions from the real estate industry, coupled with violence from law enforcement and no real due process, have been used across this historically Black neighborhood to displace Black and poor people, if Black and Indigenous lives matter in Portland, this must stop.

3. Michelle Roberts:

   I think that they don't want us in Nooksack at all — they just want to displace us from our traditional homelands as a whole, i grew up with these people and even though I may not be blood related to a lot of the people on the opposing side, we all considered each other family.

4. Don Scott:

   Apparently that was a tactic used back in 1972 and our river experts have looked at that very closely and are saying that would just not work in this situation, it would not displace the ice, it would just create tighter jams in some places.

5. Jeremy Douglas:

   The illicit drug market here is at a tipping point as synthetic opioid production appears to be migrating into places with deep governance problems like the Golden Triangle, southeast Asia could well become a source of opioids for other parts of the world while these substances get mixed into or displace part of the regional heroin supply.

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