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lexical substitution

lexical substitution noun: the task of replacing a word with another word while maintaining the meaning and context of the original sentence or phrase.

Noun

lexical substitution (uncountable)

  1. The task of replacing a word with another word while maintaining the meaning and context of the original sentence or phrase.

Questions about lexical substitution

What does lexical substitution mean?
Lexical substitution means the task of replacing a word with another word while maintaining the meaning and context of the original sentence or phrase.
What part of speech is lexical substitution?
Lexical substitution is a noun.

Words near lexical substitution in the dictionary

  1. lexical scoping
  2. lexical semantics
  3. lexical set
  4. lexical sets
  5. lexical simplification
  6. lexical substitution
  7. lexical unit
  8. lexical units
  9. lexical verb
  10. lexical verbs
  11. lexical word

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