Associations to the word «Replacement»

Wiktionary

REPLACEMENT, noun. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
REPLACEMENT, noun. The act of replacing something.

Dictionary definition

REPLACEMENT, noun. The act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy".
REPLACEMENT, noun. Someone who takes the place of another person.
REPLACEMENT, noun. An event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood".
REPLACEMENT, noun. A person or thing that takes or can take the place of another.
REPLACEMENT, noun. Filling again by supplying what has been used up.
REPLACEMENT, noun. A person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope