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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
replacement
/ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/
noun
the act of putting something new in the place of something that is old, broken or missing
- “I would like to return it to you for replacement.”Tatoeba
- “It will be hard to find a replacement for her.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)