replacement

Plural: replacements

Noun

• the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
• someone who takes the place of another person
• an event in which one thing is substituted for another
  • "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
• a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
• filling again by supplying what has been used up
• a person who follows next in order
• A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
• The act of replacing something.
• The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.

Examples

• The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.

Synonyms

alternate, permutation, refilling, renewal, replacing, replenishment, substitute, substitution, successor, surrogate, switch, transposition

Related Words

spare part