the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
<noun.act> replacing the star will not be easy
someone who takes the place of another person
<noun.person>
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
<noun.event> the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood
a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
<noun.cognition>
filling again by supplying what has been used up
<noun.process>
a person who follows next in order
<noun.person> he was President Lincoln's successor
Replacement \Re*place"ment\ (-ment), n. 1. The act of replacing.
2. (Crystallog.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.
The midseason replacement series reached No. 1 in the A.C. Nielsen ratings for the second week of March, and a one-hour rerun special knocked venerable "60 Minutes" out of the Top 10 slot.
He was desperate to find a replacement for the mother he'd lost, but the people who stepped in to care for him would always keep him at a distance, even refusing to officially adopt him.
He has expressed hope for their replacement.
Another orbiter is being built as a replacement for Challenger and is scheduled for its first launch in early 1992.
On the $1 coin, Geiger said the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin failed to become popular because it was not easily distinguished from the quarter and because it was introduced as an alternative to the paper dollar, rather than a replacement.
The announcement came less than a week after the bank's board of directors forced out Walter Connolly as chairman, naming H. Ridgely Bullock as an interim replacement.
But it requires wholesale replacement of lecturers and classrooms with silicon chips and glass threads.
They require mandatory inspection of exhaust emissions and assembly-line testing and prohibit the sale of replacement parts that do not meet emission standards.
Union leadership also misjudged the impact of the cash flow provided by the replacement games.
It will probably take a week to print a replacement.
Mr Shepard yesterday declined to comment. Mr Sinclair, who has been mentioned as a possible replacement for either Sir Anthony or Mr Shepard, is now regarded as unlikely to be appointed to either position.
Mark Weinberg, a spokesman for the Reagans, declined comment about the replacement.
The legislation did not spell out how to determine the replacement crop value.
The replacement of one-third of the Central Committee is the maximum permitted by the party statute, except at a party congress. The party presidium has 23 members.
Grunseth's replacement, Arne Carlson, chose Joanell Dyrstad as his running mate.
Her real-life replacement, Ms. Farrow, plays another of the radio stars, a hat-check girl who finds fame after she sheds her Brooklyn accent (the same delightful squawk the actress put on in "Broadway Danny Rose").
Mr. Pfeiffer, 63 years old, retired as a McKesson vice president in 1988; he will serve until a permanent replacement is named, McKesson said.
When the possibility of West German troops being included in a replacement unit for the Canadian brigade first was raised publicly last fall, some Norwegian press reaction was negative.
"We couldn't afford to stay there because we had to come to New York and find a replacement," Ebb said.
Annual insurance premiums for physical damage to similar rigs in the North Sea range from 1% to 1.5% of a platform's replacement cost.
A federal judge today set a hearing on a key issue in Eastern Airline's efforts to force its pilots back to work, while the strikebound carrier began its first class in training replacement pilots.
His replacement will be elected in a secret vote by the 55 Democratic senators who will take their place in the 101st Congress next January.
His replacement as finance minister, Nasser Abdullah al-Rowdan, quickly set about counting what Kuwait had left.
The striker replacement legislation's effects would be wide.
Other Democrats have proposed more generous credits, but as a replacement for the personal exemption.
His likely replacement, Clarence Thomas, won't join the court soon enough to vote on Freeman vs. Pitts.
None of the delegates was able to suggest a replacement for Batmonh.
He hoped that Lord Rees' replacement would be named before the end of March.
The suit also alleges that a cartoon appeared on certain union bulletin boards depicting a replacement driver being shot by man with a rifle.
Both arise because of an inflation-induced discrepancy between historic and replacement costs.