replacement

American  

[ri-pleys-muhnt] / rɪˈpleɪs mənt /

noun

1. the act of replacing.

2. a person or thing that replaces another.

   summer replacements for vacationing staff; a replacement for a broken dish.

3. Military. a sailor, soldier, or airman assigned to fill a vacancy in a military unit.

4. Also called metasomatism.  Geology. the process of practically simultaneous removal and deposition by which a new mineral grows in the body of an old one.

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replacement British  

/ rɪˈpleɪsmənt /

noun

1. the act or process of replacing

2. a person or thing that replaces another

3. geology the growth of a mineral within another of different chemical composition by gradual simultaneous deposition and removal

4. Also called: petrification.  a process of fossilization by gradual substitution of mineral matter for the original organic matter

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Other Word Forms

• nonreplacement noun

Etymology

Origin of replacement

First recorded in 1780–90; replace + -ment

Example Sentences

BBC Sport understands Spurs will appoint Tudor's replacement in the next few days to be in place for when most players return from international duty.

From BBC

Users can improve autocorrect by resetting the keyboard dictionary, creating text replacements and adding proper nouns to Contacts.

From The Wall Street Journal

A Scottish grandmother has broken a fitness record at age 72 - having had three hip replacements.

From BBC

The shift away from equating AI agents with human workers has less to do with quelling human anxiety over layoffs and job replacement.

From The Wall Street Journal

With the dangerous Daniel James, scorer of Wales' spectacular long-range goal, and David Brooks taken off, their replacements Liam Cullen and Mark Harris struggled to influence the game.

From BBC

Related Words

• reinstatement
• restoration
• stand-in