Supersede

Definition: Supersede

Supersede

Verb

1. Take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school".

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Date "supersede" was first used: 1456. (references)

Note: Supersede \Su`per*sede"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Superseded; present participle verb or noun Superseding.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Supersede

Disuse

Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.

Relinquishment

Give notice to quit, give warning; supersede; be rid of, get rid of, be quit of, get quit of; eject.

Substitution

Verb: substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.

Crosswords: Supersede

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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert.

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Business

Legislation to supersede EO 205 has been pending in both Houses of Congress for several years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkmenistan

In October the President published a spiritual and historical guidebook for the nation entitled "Rukhnama." The President is attempting to use these teachings in part to supersede other established religious codes, as well as historical and cultural texts, and thereby shape citizens' religious and cultural behavior. (references)

Economic History

Greece

International arbitration as well as European Court of Justice judgments supersede local court decisions. (references)

Trinidad

However, long-term distributors/agents sometimes acquire certain claims on distribution rights that go beyond and, in some cases, supersede contract rights under local common law interpretations. (references)

Trade

Austria

Those products for which an EU directive has been issued are subject to EU standards requirements that supersede any national requirements. (references)

Women

Togo

Traditional customs often supersede the legal systems among certain ethnic groups. (references)

Mozambique

However, domestic NGO's such as the Rural Women's Development Association and Rural Mutual Assistance Association have cautioned that a considerable investment of time and education would be necessary before the new rights granted to women would supersede traditional practice. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

zëvendësoj (act for, commute, cover, deputize, displace, double, interchange, make up for, pre empt, replace, substitute, supplant, understudy), zë vendin. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسخ (copy, countermand, duplication, engross, mimeograph, reduplicate, reproduce, reproduction, transcribe, transcription), ‏حل محل (dig out, displace, oust, replace, subrogate), ‏خلف (after, back, backwards, behind, deposit, succeed, successor, supplant, tiller), ‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void), ‏بدل (allowance, apposition, change, exchange, lieu, quid pro quo, recompense, shift, sit, substitute, switch, treadle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суспендирам (suspend), отстранявам от длъжност, отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, disaffirm, extinguish, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, undo, wash out, withdraw), замествам (act for, deputize, preempt, represent, substitute, supply), заменям (commute, exchange, replace, substitute, trade, trade off), заемам мястото на (succeed). (various references)

Chinese 

代替 (Alternate, subrogate, Substitutional, Substitutionary, Superseded, Superseding, supplant, Supplanted, supplanting). (various references)

Czech

vystřídat (relieve), vymìnit (change, exchange, interchange, supplant, switch round, to exchange, trade), odstranit (ablate, clear away, discharge, dismantle, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, get out, remove, sweep, take away), nahradit (compensate, make good, make up for, recompense, recover, redeem, refund, reimburse, repay, replace, retrieve, substitute, supplant, supply). (various references)

Farsi 

جایگزین چیزدیگری شدن , جانشین شدن (Heir, Inherit, Surrogate). (various references)

Finnish

syrjäyttää (displace, oust, set aside, supplant), sivuuttaa (go by, overlook, pass, supplant). (various references)

French

remplacer (sub for smb., substitute), prendre la place, introduire une nouvelle reine, détrôner, annuler et remplacer, annuler. (various references)

German

ersetzen (compensate, compensate for, displace, reimburse, replace, substitute, superseding, supplant, take the place of, to replace, to substitute, to supersede). (various references)

Greek 

αντικαθιστώ (relieve, replace, replace by / with, spell, stand in for, substitute, supplant). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"חליף באחר, לבוא במקום. (various references)

Hungarian

kiszorít (shrivel, to cut out, to displace, to expel, to extrude, to supersede, to supplant), helyettesít (deputize, substitute, supplant, to deputize, to fill in for sy, to replace, to substitute, to supersede, to understudy). (various references)

Italian

sostituire (displace, relieve, replace, stand in for, substitute, substitute for, take the place of, understudy), soppiantare (oust, supplant), rimpiazzare (displace, replace, substitute). (various references)

Korean 

대� 하십시�". (various references)

Manx

goaill yn ynnyd jeh (displace, stand for). (various references)

Pig Latin

upersedesay

Portuguese

suplantar (exceed, obscure, outshine, supplant, surpass), substituir (displace, exist, relay, relieve, renew, replace, shift, stand in for, substitute, supplant, take the place of), tornar inútil, tomar o lugar de (supplant), pôr de lado (lay aside, overrule, put away, put by, relegate, reserve, salt away, set apart, set aside). (various references)

Romanian

suprima (abolish, abrogate, discontinue, eliminate, make an end of, remove, repeal, retrench, rid, scotch, suppress), schimba (alter, change, chop, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, improve, interchange, modify, renew, replace, shift, substitute, supplant, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, vary), lua locul cuiva, înlocui (change, commute, cover, displace, do duty for, make good, replace, shift, supplant), înlãtura (avert, brush aside, cast away, clear, discard, dismiss, disseize, do away, do away with, eliminate, forbear, make a clean sweep of smth., move away, obviate, overbear, preclude, remove, save, seclude, supplant, take away, throw by). (various references)

Russian 

заменять (commute, interchange, make into, replace, shift into, substitute for, take the place of, understudy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zameniti (commute, exchange, fill in, mistake, replace, substitute, supplant, switch, switch over), istisnuti (extrude, press out, push out, squeeze out, supplant). (various references)

Spanish

reemplazar (displace, replace, summons). (various references)

Swedish

ersätta (compensate, displace, double for, indemnify, pay, recompense, recoup, reimburse, remunerate, renew, repay, replace, satisfy). (various references)

Turkish

yerini almak (cut in, oust, relay, replace, sit in for, subrogate, substitute, supplant, take one's place), yerine geçmek (displace, replace, stand for, sub, subrogate, substitute, succeed, supplant, take smb.'s place, take the place of), ayağını kaydırmak (do, make smb. loose his job, put smb.'s nose out of joint, supplant). (various references)

Ukrainian

витісняти (crowd out, cut out, dislodge, displace, edge out, extrude, force out, oust, supplant), звільняти (absolve, acquit, affranchise, avoid, bag, cashier, clear, defecate, disband, disencumber, disengage, dismiss, ease, eject, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, exonerate, free, let out, loose, manumit, purify, release, remit, rescue, rid, set free, unfetter, unshackle, untie, vacate), заміняти (replace, substitute). (various references)

supersedere. (various references)

superceder. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "supersede": supersedeas, superseded, superseder, superseders, supersedes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Supersede" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sepersede, Supersad, supersade, superscede, superse, supersed, superseds, superseed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: speeders.

-2 letters: depress, peeress, perdues, perused, peruses, pressed, reseeds, seeders, speeder, speered, supered.

-3 letters: deeper, drupes, druses, dupers, duress, peered, perdue, perdus, perses, peruse, prudes, pseuds, pureed, purees, pursed, purses, reseed, resees, reused, reuses, rupees, seders, seeder, seeped, speeds, speers, sprees, sprues, sudser, suedes, supers.

-4 letters: deeps, deers, drees, dress, drupe, druse, duper, dupes.

+1 letter: supercedes, superseded, superseder, supersedes.

+2 letters: supersedeas, superseders, supersedure, suspendered, unexpressed, unrepressed.

+3 letters: depressurize, geopressured, preschedules, supersedures, underexposes.

+4 letters: depressurized, depressurizes, overpersuades, repressurized, underemphases.

+5 letters: doublespeakers, groundskeepers, predaceousness, pridefulnesses, supercalenders, underexposures, unpreparedness, uprootednesses.