DISPLACEMENT

• (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

  synonyms : supplanting

• (noun) act of removing from office or employment

• (noun) to move something from its natural environment

  synonyms : deracination

• (noun) the act of uniform movement

  synonyms : translation

• (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation

  synonyms : shift

• (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

• (noun) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

  synonyms : displacement reaction

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