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What does in lieu mean?

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After he had vacated the flat, the landlord had wrongfully kept the deposit in lieu of rent in arrears.
Business had invaded the cloisters, where, in lieu of antiphonaries, fat ledgers lay on the lecterns.
He tried to have the sentence overturned, but was offered only the option of paying a 5,000 fine in lieu of prison time.
So did it mean then that her party sister was usurping her own personal, spiritual beliefs in lieu of civic duty?
The fact that the debts are not secured on your house means that creditors do not have any automatic right to take your house in lieu of payment.
The preference is for oral or intravenous administration in lieu of intramuscular medications.

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