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Meaning of replacement

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  replacement
      n 1: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the
           place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"
           [syn: {replacement}, {replacing}]
      2: someone who takes the place of another person [syn:
         {surrogate}, {alternate}, {replacement}]
      3: an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the
         replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
         [syn: {substitution}, {permutation}, {transposition},
         {replacement}, {switch}]
      4: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
         [syn: {substitute}, {replacement}]
      5: filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn:
         {refilling}, {replenishment}, {replacement}, {renewal}]
      6: a person who follows next in order; "he was President
         Lincoln's successor" [syn: {successor}, {replacement}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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