replacement

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Etymology

replace +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

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Noun

replacement (plural replacements)

1. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
   • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, BBC:

     Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.

2. The act of replacing something.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:substitute

Derived terms

• overreplacement
• subreplacement

See also

• spare part

Translations

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

• Czech: náhrada (cs) f
• Dutch: vervanger (nl) m, plaatsvervanger (nl) m, vervanging (nl) f
• Esperanto: anstataŭaĵo (eo)
• Finnish: (person) sijainen (fi); (of things, never people) korvike (fi), varaosa (fi)
• French: remplaçant (fr) m, substitut (fr)
• German: Ersatz (de) m, Ersatzspieler (de) m
• Italian: sostituto (it), rimpiazzo (it)

• Polish: zastępca (pl) m (person), zamiennik (pl) m (object)
• Portuguese: substituto (pt) m
• Russian: замена (ru) (zamena), замещение (ru) (zamesheniye)
• Serbo-Croatian: nadomjestak (sh), supstitut (sh), zamjena (sh)
• Spanish: substituto (es) m, sustituto (es)
• Swedish: substitut (sv)

act of replacing

• Portuguese: substituição (pt) f, reposição (pt) f

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• Greek: υποκατάστατος (el) (ypokatástatos) m
• Hungarian: helyettes (hu), pótlék (hu)

• Romanian: substitut (ro) n, înlocuitor (ro) m, locțiitor (ro) m, substituent (ro) m, substituitor (ro) m
• Tagalog: halili (tl)
• Telugu: ప్రత్యామ్నాయం (te) (pratyaamnaayam)