Synonyms of the word

stead

• n. (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general.
• n. (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.
• n. (obsolete) A specific place or point on a body or other surface.
• n. (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.
• n. (obsolete) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm.
• n. (obsolete) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
• n. (in phrases, now literary) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.
• n. Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now…
• v. To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
• v. To fill place of.

function

• n. What something does or is used for.
• n. A professional or official position.
• n. An official or social occasion.
• n. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
• n. (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of…
• n. (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
• n. (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
• n. (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
• n. (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
• v. (intransitive) to have a function.
• v. (intransitive) to carry on a function; to be in action.

lieu

• n. place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of.

office

• n. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly.
• n. A position of responsibility.
• n. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
• n. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
• n. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral…
• n. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
• n. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
• n. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
• n. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
• n. (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
• n. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly.
• n. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
• n. (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly.
• n. (now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen,…
• n. (Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown…
• n. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
• n. (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
• n. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
• n. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and…
• v. To provide (someone) with an office.
• v. (intransitive) To have an office.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

role

• n. A character or part played by a performer or actor.
• n. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
• n. The function or position of something.
• n. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
• n. (grammar): The function of a word in a phrase.