replacement

English

Etymology

From replace +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/

• Audio (US):

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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:

     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

• blood replacement
• bus replacement service
• double-replacement reaction
• double replacement reaction
• energy replacement time
• Great Replacement
• great replacement
• great replacement theory
• hip replacement
• hormone replacement therapy
• hormone-replacement therapy
• language replacement
• neuroreplacement
• nonreplacement
• overreplacement
• rail replacement service
• replacement character
• replacement depot
• replacement theology
• replacement theory
• subreplacement
• there is no replacement for displacement
• underreplacement
• value over replacement player
• white replacement theory

Translations

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

Bulgarian: смяна (bg) f (smjana) Catalan: substitut (ca) m Czech: náhrada (cs) f Danish: udskiftning c (sports), erstatning (da) c, substitut (da) 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 Ottoman Turkish: عوض (ʼivâz) 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) m, reemplazo (es) m, suplente (es) m or f (person), remuda (es) f Swedish: substitut (sv) Tagalog: palitambal

act of replacing

Bulgarian: замяна (bg) f (zamjana), заместване (bg) n (zamestvane) 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) Italian: sostituzione (it) f Japanese: 交換 (ja) Maori: whakakapinga Ottoman Turkish: تعویض (taʼviz), عوض (ʼivâz) Portuguese: substituição (pt) f, reposição (pt) f Spanish: reemplazo (es) m, remudamiento m Ukrainian: замі́на f (zamína)

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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) (pratyāmnāyaṁ)

See also

• spare part

Further reading

• replacement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia