Definition
to replace: to exchange, to change, to take the place of; to put back
I'm here to replace the assistant during her maternity leave. I'll do her job while she's absent.
a replacement: a substitution, an exchange; a person or thing substituting another
One of the windows in my car is broken and I need to buy a replacement. I'm going to go to the shop now because without a new window I can't use my car.
- "I don't want to be replaced, Bruno."
- "I want to thank you for your invaluable help over the last few weeks: Replacing the majority of our workforce with automatons and robots was no easy task, but your help in reducing our fragile, fleshy and weak human staff was done with ruthless, near robotic, efficiency."
- "Samantha : If I may, sir, camels are amazing animals, and I am currently in a serious relationship with one, but there is no way that a camel could replace a human being at a highly skilled office job!"
- "Replace Bruno's dead pet with one that's alive!"
- "Narrator: And finally we move to the office of CEO Bruno Delavigne, where Special Assistant Brian Jones has been replaced by a camel."
- "He's the robot that will replace you."
- "If anyone has any ideas of what to build on the second floor to replace the laboratory, your suggestions are welcome!"
- "And I know exactly what you should replace it with..."
- "Owner : I can't give you a refund, but I can replace him with another animal."
- "Samantha : I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you can never hope to replace Sheeba."
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