replacement

English

Etymology

replace +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsmənt

Noun

replacement (countable and uncountable, 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”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     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.

   The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.

3. The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:substitute

Derived terms

• bus replacement service
• overreplacement

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• rail replacement service
• subreplacement

See also

• spare part

Translations

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

• Catalan: substitut (ca) m
• Czech: náhrada (cs) f
• Danish: udskiftning c (sports), erstatning c, substitut c
• Dutch: vervanger (nl) m, plaatsvervanger (nl) m, vervanging (nl) f
• Egyptian: (ḏbꜣw m)
• Esperanto: (thing) anstataŭaĵo; (person) anstataŭulo
• 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
• Greek: αντικαταστάτης (el) m (antikatastátis) (person), υποκατάστατο (el) n (ypokatástato) (thing)
• Indonesian: pengganti (id)

• Italian: sostituto (it), rimpiazzo (it)
• Japanese: 代替 (ja)
• Maori: kaitiriwā, whākapi
• Polish: zastępca (pl) m (person), zamiennik (pl) m (object)
• Portuguese: substituto (pt) m
• Russian: заме́на (ru) (zaména), замеще́ние (ru) (zameščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: nadomjestak (sh), supstitut (sh), zamjena (sh)
• Spanish: substituto m, sustituto (es), reemplazo (es), suplente m or f (person)
• Swedish: substitut (sv)
• Tagalog: palitambal

act of replacing

• Catalan: reemplaçament (ca) m
• Danish: udskiftning c
• Esperanto: anstataŭigo
• Finnish: vaihtaminen (fi)
• German: Ersatz (de) m

• Greek: αντικατάσταση (el) f (antikatástasi), υποκατάσταση (el) f (ypokatástasi), αλλαγή (el) f (allagí) (sports)
• Japanese: 交換 (ja)
• Maori: whakakapinga
• Portuguese: substituição (pt) f, reposição f
• Spanish: reemplazo (es) m
• Ukrainian: замі́на f (zamína)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Greek: ^{(please verify)} υποκατάστατος (el) m (ypokatástatos)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} helyettes (hu), ^{(please verify)} pótlék (hu)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} substitut (ro) n, ^{(please verify)} înlocuitor (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} locțiitor (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} substituent (ro) m, ^{(please verify)} substituitor m

• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} halili (tl)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ప్రత్యామ్నాయం (te) (pratyāmnāyaṃ)

Further reading

• replacement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia