词汇释义
supplant TEM8 TOEFL GRE
UK /səˈplɑːnt/ US /səˈplænt/
verb, If a person or thing is supplanted, another person or thing takes their place.替代，取代
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外刊例句
1. Ubras, a five-year-old company, wants to supplant Victoria’s Secret with the most non-Victoria’s Secret of products: unwired, sporty bras that emphasize comfort.(New York Times)
2. But critics point to abuses and charge that the visa program is used by outsourcers and Big Tech to supplant U.S. workers, drive down wages and facilitate outsourcing.(Seattle Times)
3. General Motors, Ford, Volkswagen and others are investing billions to develop electric cars and trucks that eventually will begin supplanting fossil fuel models.(Seattle Times)
4. These apps are a crazy symbol of how tech companies are supplanting government functions.(New York Times)
5. In September, it became the primary contractor for the Air Force’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program, allowing it to supplant Boeing as the nation’s primary supplier of intercontinental ballistic missiles.(Washington Post)
6. These days, Ant talks mostly about creating partnerships with big banks, not disrupting or supplanting them.(New York Times)
7. Google’s promotion of Chrome on its search engine helped the browser supplant Explorer as the market leader.(Seattle Times)
8. The Fed is not supposed to supplant willing private lenders, according to the legislation that enabled its emergency powers.(New York Times)
9. But in a follow-up message to the judges, he said his earlier memo was not intended “to supplant judicial interpretation.”(New York Times)
10. And the trade conflicts, tariffs, restrictions on immigration and diminution of global institutions of the Trump era would be supplanted by a more internationalist approach — and one likely to yield substantial benefits, the report projected.(New York Times)
11. But they long ago lost their agenda-setting influence, supplanted by cable news networks that performed roughly the same function 24 hours a day.(New York Times)
12. They beat us at chess and trivia, supplant jobs by the thousands, and are about to be let loose on highways and roads as chauffeurs and couriers.(Seattle Times)
词汇搭配
supplant person, thing
词汇家族
supplants, supplanted, supplanting, supplantation, supplanter
词汇来源
early 14c., "to trip up, overthrow, defeat, dispossess," from Old French suplanter, sosplanter "to trip up, overthrow, drive out, usurp," or directly from Latin supplantare "trip up, overthrow," from assimilated form of sub "under" (see sub-) + planta "sole of the foot" (see plant (n.)). Meaning "replace one thing with another" first recorded 1670s. There is a sense evolution parallel in Hebrew akabh "he beguiled," from akebh "heel."
近义词
displace, displant, relieve, replace, substitute, supersede
反义词
hold, keep, surrender, employ, appoint, retain, secure
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