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What does replacement mean?

Definitions for replacement
rɪˈpleɪs məntre·place·ment

Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word replacement.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. replacement, replacingnoun

    the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another

    "replacing the star will not be easy"

  2. surrogate, alternate, replacementnoun

    someone who takes the place of another person

  3. substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switchnoun

    an event in which one thing is substituted for another

    "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"

  4. substitute, replacementnoun

    a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another

  5. refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewalnoun

    filling again by supplying what has been used up

  6. successor, replacementnoun

    a person who follows next in order

    "he was President Lincoln's successor"

Wiktionary

  1. replacementnoun

    A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

  2. replacementnoun

    The act of replacing something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Replacementnoun

    the act of replacing

  2. Replacementnoun

    the removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'replacement' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3648

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'replacement' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4625

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'replacement' in Nouns Frequency: #1410

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of replacement in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of replacement in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of replacement in a Sentence

  1. Mwanandeke Kindembo:

    People will cheat you because they've found a great replacement. Same thing for trust, nothing is complete or eternal in this world.

  2. Marty Spate:

    [ Tastry is ] not a replacement for the modern winemaking team.

  3. Greg Gause:

    Appointing Princess Reema as his replacement is an excellent public relations move, a woman representing the country that just gave women the right to drive.

  4. Jeremy Nicholson:

    Obese people need hip and knee replacement much earlier in their lives.

  5. Tucker Carlson:

    I know that the left and the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term' replacement,'.

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    • A. volubility
    • B. substrate
    • C. nidus
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