replacement

n 1: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the

place of another [syn: {replacing}]

2: someone who takes the place of another person [syn: {surrogate},

{alternate}]

3: an event in which one thing is substituted for another [syn:

{substitution}, {permutation}, {transposition}, {switch}]

4: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of

another [syn: {substitute}]

5: filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: {refilling},

{replenishment}, {renewal}]

6: a person who follows; "he is President Bush's successor"

[syn: {successor}]