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The act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
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replacement
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES hormone replacement therapy nicotine replacement therapy COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE hip ▪ With 40,000 hip replacements a year, making joints is big business, now mostly done by multi-nationals companies. ▪ ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" [syn: substitution , permutation , transposition , switch ] the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"act or fact of being replaced," 1790, from replace (v.) + -ment . Meaning "something that replaces another" is attested from 1894.
Usage examples of replacement.
And when inexplicable delays and the accumulation of obstacles made the realization of the expected result amidst the conditions of the present world seem ever more and more hopeless, the growing and assimilative action of faith and fancy expanded the scene, and transferred it to a transmundane state, involving the destruction of the heavens and earth and their replacement with a new creation.
But it struck me that you should write up a first-person account of your run-in with the Dacget your version into a databank first, and you might be able to afford three or four replacements for the bonsai you lost.
Ostensibly, Dom had chosen him to be his replacement, but all along it was Margarite who was pulling the strings like a ghost from the shadows.
In desperation they turned to the only remaining source of military power, the Ersatzheer, the Home or Replacement Army, which was scarcely an army at all but a collection of recruits in training and various garrison troops of overage men performing guard duty in the homeland.
Rapier was overdue for command of his own boat but his replacement was late.
Atlantic City, where their engagement had been involuntarily extended till they made up what they owed the Casino as the result of several foolish wagers, and these last-minute replacements, Gino Baglione and the Paisans, whom Ralph Jr.
I asked Jim Pledger to do double duty at Finance and Administration and as her temporary replacement.
She had been unable to walk without agony until Quath fetched an artificial replacement.
The woman, a 46-year-old Boston accountant with irreversible restenosis of the heart, responded so well to the replacement of her defective heart with a Jarvik IX Exterior Artificial Heart that within weeks she was able to resume the active lifestyle she had so enjoyed before stricken, pursuing her active schedule with the extraordinary prosthesis portably installed in a stylish Etienne Aigner purse.
If I had wiped out the bulk of the roster, it would be impossible to secure the quantity and quality of replacements needed to make us contenders.
Thank God the scunner is away, although I think his replacement is going to be every bit as nasty.
The replacement crew had certainly gotten him to Selva in less time than he had reason to expect.
PFCs Gray, Shoup, and Little, all replacements who came in with 26th FIST, were wounded.
Gray, Shoup, and Little, all replacements who came in with 26th FIST, were wounded.
Others were more complex systems, sprouting slim tubes that penetrated the scars, pumping specialist fluids in and out of damaged organs, supporting them until he could be given replacements and proper treatments.