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English
Etymology
From replace + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
replacement (countable and uncountable, plural replacements)
- 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.
- The act of replacing something.
The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.
- The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
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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), reemplazo (es), suplente m or f (person)
- Swedish: substitut (sv)
- Tagalog: palitambal
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See also
Further reading
replacement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 