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"Instead" Definition

adverb

In preference; as an alternative: yearned instead for a home and family.
In the place of something previously mentioned; as a substitute or an equivalent: Having planned to drive, we walked instead.
As a substitute or equivalent .
As an alternative to something expressed or implied .