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Replacement   /rɪplˈeɪsmənt/   Listen
Replacement

noun
1.
The act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another.  Synonym: replacing.
2.
Someone who takes the place of another person.  Synonyms: alternate, surrogate.
3.
An event in which one thing is substituted for another.  Synonyms: permutation, substitution, switch, transposition.
4.
A person or thing that takes or can take the place of another.  Synonym: substitute.
5.
Filling again by supplying what has been used up.  Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replenishment.
6.
A person who follows next in order.  Synonym: successor.



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"Replacement" Quotes from Famous Books



... introduction of hundreds of beds, hundreds of mattresses, hundreds of sets of bedclothes, hundreds of suits of pyjamas, hundreds of—But why prolong a brain-racking list? Then there was the pulling-down and fixing-up of partitions, the removal of every single window for replacement by Hopper sashes, the fitting-in of bathrooms, lavatories, ward-kitchens, sink-rooms, dispensary, cookhouse, operating-theatre, pathological laboratory, linen-store, steward's store, clothing-store, detention-room, ...
— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir

... Corporation does not include either the making or the furnishing of any labor in connection with the installation of such repaired or replacement parts, transistors or tubes nor does it include responsibility ...
— Zenith Television Receiver Operating Manual • Zenith Radio Corporation

... the latter until some mitigated but equally effectual substitute for that killing is invented. That duel disappears from life, the fight of the beasts for food and the fight of the bulls for the cows, only by virtue of its replacement by new forms of competition. With the development of primitive war we have such a replacement. The competition becomes a competition to serve and rule in the group, the stronger take the leadership and the larger share of life, and the weaker co-operate ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... be delusive, as our knowledge has increased and as the blanks which formerly appeared to exist between the different formations have been filled up. That there is no absolute break between formation and formation, that there has been no sudden disappearance of all the forms of life and replacement of them by others, but that changes have gone on slowly and gradually, that one type has died out and another has taken its place, and that thus, by insensible degrees, one fauna has been replaced by another, are conclusions strengthened by constantly increasing evidence. So that ...
— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley

... instance, the abolishing of cess-pools and their replacement by water-closets, together with the abolishing of brick drains and their replacement by impermeable and self-cleansing stone-ware pipes, has been attended with an immediate and extraordinary reduction of mortality. ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring


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