replaceverb [ T ]
uk/rɪˈpleɪs/us/rɪˈpleɪs/replace verb [ T ] (CHANGE FOR)
B1 to take the place of something, or to put something or someone in the place of something or someone else:
The factory replaced most of its workers with robots.
Tourism has replaced agriculture as the nation's main industry.
B1 If you replace something broken, damaged, or lost, you provide a new one:
I promised to replace the plate that I'd dropped.
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- Do a global search for 'organise' and replace it with 'organize'.
- The Council plans to knock the library down and replace it with a hotel complex.
- Imperial units have in many cases been replaced by metric ones in Britain.
- Doctors have replaced the top of his hip bone with a metal sphere.
- He's bought me a smart new camera to replace my old one.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Replacing and exchanging
- alternate
- alternatively
- bargain sth away
- change over
- change places idiom
- fill
- name
- part exchange
- pinch-hit
- pre-empt
- proxy
- rep
- represent
- reserve
- sit
- succeed
- succession
- supersede
- supplant
- swap
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replace verb [ T ] (PUT BACK)
C2 to put something back where it was before:
The librarian replaced the books correctly on the shelves.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Giving, bringing or getting back
- bring
- bring sth back
- claw
- claw sth back
- go
- go back
- money-back
- non-returnable
- put
- recover
- redeem
- restore
- retake
- retrieve
- return
- reversion
- send
- send sth back
- take
- take sth back
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replaceable
adjective uk/rɪˈpleɪ.sə.bəl/us/rɪˈpleɪ.sə.bəl/
Don't worry - all that stolen stuff is replaceable.