Replacement - Definition

n 1: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the
place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy"
[syn: replacement, replacing]
2: someone who takes the place of another person [syn:
surrogate, alternate, replacement]
3: an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the
replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
[syn: substitution, permutation, transposition,
replacement, switch]
4: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
[syn: substitute, replacement]
5: filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn:
refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal]
6: a person who follows next in order; "he was President
Lincoln's successor" [syn: successor, replacement]