REPLACEMENT

• (noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another

  "replacing the star will not be easy"

  synonyms : replacing

• (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another

  synonyms : substitute

• (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another

  "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"

  synonyms : permutation , substitution , switch , transposition

• (noun) a person who follows next in order

  "he was President Lincoln's successor"

  synonyms : successor

• (noun) someone who takes the place of another person

  synonyms : alternate , surrogate

• (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up

  synonyms : refilling , renewal , replenishment

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