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replacement English

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What does replacement mean?
Definitions in simple English

replacement

A replacement is something that stands in for something else. I'll be the replacement security guard for the guy who quit. Here is the replacement gadget for the one you lost.

replacement

(= replacing) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another replacing the star will not be easy (= surrogate) someone who takes the place of another person an event in which one thing is substituted for another the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood (= substitute) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another (= successor) a person who follows next in order he was President Lincoln's successor (= refilling) filling again by supplying what has been used up

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Simple sentences

It's a word I'd like to find a replacement for.
He demanded a replacement for the broken part.
I hadn't thought about something: about the replacement glasses.
Are you already thinking of a replacement for Tom?
Tom had a hip replacement surgery.
Your replacement has already been picked.
It will be hard to find a replacement for her.
It'll be hard to find a replacement for him.

Movie subtitles

Beats those replacement camps.
It wasn't bad enough being in Infantry Replacement.
Must be a new replacement.
Yeah, but this guy I'm a replacement for, where's he?
Two new squadrons are coming in tomorrow and 12 replacement aircraft are being ferried in for you.
You're Martin, the replacement.
You gonna introduce me to my replacement, as long as he's drinking my whiskey?
The replacement aircraft are not available.
We do not have a replacement.
Cook's got a replacement for Frank and a lot of money to protect.
And I'm better qualified to fly my ship than any replacement would be.
The Bosco's replacement.
Find a replacement.
Yes he wants a replacement for Julia.
Now we're short tonight. We've got a first-class replacement.
I see you've already forgotten Maurice and found a replacement?
The replacement forms. They should be at Division today.
He sent a replacement.
A replacement only.
If you drop us a replacement, we can fly out.
Because you're going to make the replacement to my uncle.
I'll ask the mayor to find a replacement.
Yeas, replacement squad.
Every time one fell out, there was always a replacement.
Are you the replacement for the bass and sax?
It appears your replacement arrives tomorrow.
There's no replacement yet.
Replacement battalion.
He'd like to stay here, he likes Hamburg a lot, - if he finds a replacement.
If so, they need a a replacement for the theatre column.
I'm Private Wyman, replacement.
I was in Calcutta when it happened and I've only now been able to seek a replacement.
I've brought you a replacement for Taylor.
This is Palmer, Taylor's replacement.
Of course, as soon as I can find a replacement.

News and current affairs

One involved the wholesale replacement of members of the advisory committee to the National Center for Environmental Health, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), without consulting the center's director.
The gradual replacement of one generation of elites by another may be one of the key factors in determining whether or not effective reform takes place in the Arab world.
Too many factors remain fuzzy: the rate of growth of these countries' energy demand, discoveries of new oil reserves, developments in oil-saving technology, and the ultimate replacement of oil by other energy sources.
If, for example, a target country provides minimum wage guarantees and replacement incomes for the domestic unemployed, immigrants simply force domestic residents into the care of the welfare state.
This may reflect the high interchange in both directions between the Anglo-Saxon countries, or replacement migration in which skilled people arrive from elsewhere as the domestic skilled migrate to other Anglo-Saxon countries.
Whereas tax credits point in the direction of replacement incomes, raising the minimum wage points in the opposite direction, by making income more dependent on jobs.
Of course, hip replacement patients don't get super-human speed, strength, and vision - at least not yet.
The euro has been touted as the replacement for or alternative to the dollar.
But behind the scenes, maneuvering and politicking over his replacement are already in full swing.
DNA stores information that is vital to the growth, repair, replacement, and correct functioning of our cells.
Moreover, a possible replacement for Morsi is not very clear.
This would cost Germany control over the quality of its credit, just as the replacement of the Bundesbank by the ECB implied Germany's loss of control over the quality of its currency (though it was given a large role in designing the ECB).
Such last-minute capitulation could mean resignation for the new Greek government and its replacement by EU-approved technocrats, as in the constitutional putsch against Italy's Silvio Berlusconi in 2012.
That is why, as the Hyogo Framework comes to an end, it is important to start thinking now about its replacement, which will guide us through the thicket of risks emerging in the urbanized, interdependent world of the twenty-first century.
The twins' doctors found that the dystonia could be fully treated with a readily available serotonin replacement.
There are now, however, more than 60 countries where the fertility rate is below replacement level.
The European Central Bank's chief economist, Otmar Issing, may not be scheduled to retire until May 2006. But behind the scenes, maneuvering and politicking over his replacement are already in full swing.
Clogged capital markets and resistance to social hardship have also delayed the replacement of incumbent firms by more efficient new entrants.
First, with its birth rate well below replacement level, Japan's population is aging and shrinking.
What is needed now is the quick withdrawal of US forces, and their temporary replacement by UN-led troops, which will hand power back to the Iraqi people.
Unfortunately, harmonization would probably apply to wage replacement payments, implying uniform minimum wage constraints for EU countries.
Accelerating this shift is the replacement of interstate war by armed conflict involving non-state actors such as insurgent groups, terrorist networks, militias, and criminal organizations.
Doling out top international jobs by nationality is a terrible practice and choosing Fischer's replacement presents a wonderful opportunity to make a break with this routine.

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