replacement

Replacement is the retrieval of something missing or lost, or the use of other things to achieve the same purpose. The term is used in various contexts, among others

• General:
  • Substitute food , often a lower quality product
  • Replacement, replacing an outdated fleet with a more modern one

• in the medicine
  • Prosthesis , artificial replacement of a part of the body, including dentures

• in the military:
  • Substitute bodies , personnel addition to the armed forces
  • Alternative military service to be performed instead of military service

• in law:
  • damages
  • public law compensation in the sense of compensation
  • Compensation

• in art
  • The Substitute , a Yugoslav short film from 1961
  • Substitute (short film) , a Swiss-French short film by Elodie Pong from 2011

• in psychology
  • a substitute goal, a substitute act, or a substitute satisfaction takes the place of an unachievable original goal or object

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Wiktionary: replacement  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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