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1. Cause to move, usually with force or pressure
   "the refugees were displaced by the war"
    
2. Take the place of or have precedence over
   - preempt
    
3. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
   - fire, give notice, can [N. Amer], dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
    
4. Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
   - move

Derived forms: displaced, displacing, displaces

Type of: remove, replace, supercede, supersede, supervene upon, supplant

Encyclopedia: Displace