instead of  

• Préposition
  1. In lieu of; in place of; rather than.
     1. He walked to school instead of taking the car. ‎
• Plus d'exemples
  1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
     • The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it.
     • Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
     • But Payton, with so many available choices on the N.F.L.’s No. 1 offense, seemed to be trying to outthink the Eagles instead of outpunch them.
  2. Utilisé au début de la phrase
     • Instead of having a nice modular eggcrate, we now want to build an immodular eggcrate. Deliberately we want to impose upon future teachers, not the nice simple eggcrate, but a more complicated one.
     • Instead of eating at fancy banquets with the president, we were drinking tea and eating ugali and sukumawiki,” or maize flour and greens.
     • Instead of Punta Cana, its name for the last 27 years, the restaurant was now called Casa de Campo — the same as an ultraluxe resort in the Dominican Republic.

• Partie du discours Hiérarchie
  1. Prépositions

Other Vocabulary

1. en astern of
2. en in aid of
3. en instanton
4. en steady on
5. en unheard of