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UK
/ɹɪplˈeɪsmənt/
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[ US /ɹɪˈpɫeɪsmənt/ ]
[ US /ɹɪˈpɫeɪsmənt/ ]
NOUN
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a person who follows next in order
he was President Lincoln's successor -
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood - someone who takes the place of another person
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
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the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
replacing the star will not be easy
How To Use replacement In A Sentence
- Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
- I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
- He battled on with temporary replacements, which kept getting dislodged in training and preseason games. The Sun
- The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
- The guard left before his replacement came.
- The band simply didn't have the time or resources to find an adequate replacement for Frank.
- It also boasts an unmatched ventilation and antifog system, removable interior cheek pads and a sturdy chinstrap that can be removed to allow cleaning or replacement.
- I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
- It's more trouble than it's worth to take it back to the shop and ask for a replacement.
- The drawings themselves will be used to produce the zinc templates from which workmen in the Minster stoneyard will work when they begin to carve the replacement stones.
