Re: invicem

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> "Instead of" in French is mostly "au lieu de" or "à la place de" (less
> frequent). They are synonyms ("place" and "lieu" both mean the same:
> "place, position").
English has "in lieu of" as a higher-register synonym for "instead of";
"in place of" also works, but isn't usually applied to abstracta, which
have no "place" -- the first two are more general.

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