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replacements

replacements is the plural of replacement.

Meaning of replacement

Noun

replacement (countable and uncountable, plural replacements)

  1. A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
    • Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC
  2. The act of replacing something.
    • The replacement of that broken light-bulb will have to wait until I can buy a new one.
  3. The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.

Phrases with replacements

Questions about replacements

What is replacements the plural of?
Replacements is the plural of replacement.

Words near replacements in the dictionary

  1. replacement characters
  2. replacement depot
  3. replacement depots
  4. replacement theology
  5. replacement theory
  6. replacements
  7. replacer
  8. replacers
  9. replaces
  10. replacest
  11. replaceth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: replacements (page history and authors); replacement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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