take someone's place

take someone's place (third-person singular simple present takes someone's / its place, present participle taking someone's / its place, simple past took someone's / its place, past participle taken someone's / its place)

1. To replace someone or something.
   • 1951 March, E. J. Tyler, “Post-War Recovery on the Netherlands Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 154:

     Because of the shortage of rolling stock, services on many lines could only be introduced gradually, and buses took their place in the meantime.

• take one's place
• take place