Verb

Infinitive to replace

Third person singular replaces

Simple past replaced

Past participle replaced

Present participle replacing

to replace (third-person singular simple present replaces, present participle replacing, simple past and past participle replaced)

1. (transitive) To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

   When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.

   The earl...was replaced in his government. — Francis Bacon.

2. (transitive) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

   You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.

3. (transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent for.

   I replaced my car with a newer model.

   The batteries were dead so I replaced them

4. (transitive) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfil the end or office of.

   This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier.

   This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. — William Whewell.

5. (transitive) To demolish a building and build a updated form of that building in its place.
6. (transitive, rare) To place again.
7. (transitive, rare) To put in a new or different place.

Replacement means:

• Replacements (short story), Tuttle, Lisa
• Axiom schema of replacement
• Text replacement, a feature of word processors correcting automatically common misspellings and typos
• Replacement rate
• Sampling (statistics) with replacement