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subreplacement

subreplacement adjective: below the level needed to maintain the current population.

Adjective

subreplacement (not comparable)

  1. Below the level needed to maintain the current population.
    • The other is the fact that the population of Japan has begun to shrink, the result of years of subreplacement birth rates.2011, James W. White, Mirrors of Memory: Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 219

Origin of subreplacement

From sub- + replacement.

Questions about subreplacement

What does subreplacement mean?
Subreplacement means below the level needed to maintain the current population.
What part of speech is subreplacement?
Subreplacement is an adjective.

Words near subreplacement in the dictionary

  1. subrepand
  2. subrepeat
  3. subrepeats
  4. subrepertoire
  5. subrepertoires
  6. subreplacement
  7. subreplicate
  8. subreplicates
  9. subreplication
  10. subreplications
  11. subrepo

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