0 to force something out of its usual or original position: --
The next step, the union fears, is for contractors to start fitting parts onto planes on the line, displacing well-paid workers.
Contemporary technoscience has largely displaced these early thermodynamic principles.
The building of a new dam will displace thousands of people who live in this area.
The blow displaced the woman's eardrum and left her partially deaf.
1 to force something or someone out of its usual or original place: --
The foreign locus of decisionmaking also creates opportunities for displacing or at least sharing blame when politically unpopular decisions are taken.
In particular, we can account for the ' displaced ' position of the verb stem in the morphology.
To give any interpretative sense would involve more skills than its amateur managers have available, and displace material for which they have no other stores.
So did the lawyers and doctors actually displace the older notables?
The conventional operatic world of romance, mistaken identity and intrigue has been displaced by one of ideological celebration.
Although displaced by the rise of the 'sanitary landfill' by the 1930s, incinerator technology persisted as a viable alternative.
Conversely, more land for agro-pastoral production will benefit the local people, depress the profitability of the park agency and displace the wildlife habitat.
This "towing" hypothesis also does not address how the inner nuclear layer neurons are displaced laterally or explain the centripetal movement of the cones.
