SUBSTITUTION

• (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:

  "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"

  synonyms : commutation , exchange

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

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

  synonyms : permutation , replacement , switch , transposition

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