Meaning of replace in English

replace

verb [ T ]

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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.

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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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Imperial units have in many cases been replaced by metric ones in Britain.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.

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Replacing and exchanging

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replace verb [T] (PUT BACK)

to put something back where it was before:

The librarian replaced the books correctly on the shelves.

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Giving, bringing or getting back

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replaceable

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replace

verb [ T ]

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to take the place of something or put in the place of something or someone else:

We replaced our old air conditioners.

The ailing actress was replaced by her understudy.

replace verb [T] (PUT BACK)

to put something back where it was before:

After dusting the vase, she replaced it on the shelf.

replacement

noun [ C/U ] us

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[ U ] The replacement of typewriters by computers happened quickly.

(Definition of replace from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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replace

verb [ T ]

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to take the place of something or someone else:

The single farm payment will replace all subsidy schemes in January.

Four people have left the DA's office and not been replaced.

replace sth with sth The majority of British people are opposed to replacing the pound sterling with the euro.

replace sb as sth He'll be replaced as undersecretary by Kate Michael.

to change something that is old, damaged, lost, etc. for something newer or better:

The machines were too expensive to replace.

A lot of technology in this hospital is ancient and needs to be replaced.

The company guarantees to replace a stolen handset within 24 hours.

(Definition of replace from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of replace

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We replaced one of the scheduled formal discussions with two parallel informal discussions in the day room to explore the impact of context.

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Science advances by replacing old theories with new ones that make better predictions.

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The model should be replaced only if an alternative model is proposed which provides a better summary of the 81 tasks.

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We take this as support for our claim that the traditional responseto-stimulus-mapping view should be replaced by an eventrepresentation view.

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No further gains were achieved in the last decade of the century, during which the third- and fourth-generation cultivars replaced the original introduced cultivars.

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The olives (four per container) were replaced every other day.

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A single leaf was placed in each pot containing larvae and this was replaced every second day.

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Posts that had become too weak could, if desired, be replaced.

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In the course of time, these tools were discarded and replaced by new ones made of local flint varieties.

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The problem can be further generalized by replacing the indicator function by a smooth approximation.

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However, the following proposition shows that the constant 1/6 in the density assumption cannot be replaced with a smaller constant.

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At operation the grossly regurgitant left-sided morphologically tricuspid valve was replaced by a "top-hat" inverted aortic valve homograft.

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The patients who have subsequently had their conduit replaced are presented in the right panel.

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The condition that f be polynomially bounded can be replaced by a fourth moment condition, as in [5].

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The lottery runs over 36 weeks, with one number being drawn and not replaced each week.

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Translations of replace

in Chinese (Traditional)

替換, 代替, 取代…

Meaning of replace in English

replace verb [T] (CHANGE FOR)

replace verb [T] (PUT BACK)

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replace | American Dictionary

replace verb [T] (CHANGE FOR)

replace verb [T] (PUT BACK)

replacement

replace | Business English

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