(C2) If something is in place, it is in its usual or correct position.
The chairs are all in place.
(C2) organised
The arrangements are all in place for the concert next Thursday.
That’s why I’m calling on the Government to make sure these life-saving services are in place.
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in place of sb/sth
You can use margarine in place of butter in some recipes.
uncountable noun
In soccer and some other sports, stoppage time is the period of time that is added to the end of a game because the play was stopped during the game as a result of, for example, injuries to players.
[mainly British]
...a spectacular goal in stoppage time.
The second half was then cagey but Marcus Rashford scored a stoppage-time penalty to send them through - given after a tense wait for a VAR review.
this phrase means 'something like this/that'. It's just a little more intellectual-sounding than 'something like that'. = similar to something else
I think you'd be good as a fitness instructor or something along those lines.
He said "Never let anyone tell you what you can do or can't do" or something along those lines.
I was thinking about a shark or something along those lines.
We usually start with general questions along the lines of, 'How do you feel?'
They're trying to organise a trip to the beach or something along those lines.
(a)
1. not acceptable; not holding acceptable views
ideologically unsound
The use of disposable products is considered ecologically unsound.
2. containing mistakes; that you cannot reply on = unreliable
The methods used were unsound.
3. (of a building, etc.) in poor condition; weak and likely to fall down
The roof is structurally unsound.
Opp: sound
Idiom: of unsound mind: đầu óc rối loạn, điên
unsoundness
Fr: véreux
Decision trees are prone to overfitting, especially when a tree is particularly deep. This is due to the amount of specificity we look at leading to a smaller sample of events that meet the previous assumptions. This small sample could lead to unsound conclusions.