replacing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
verb substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)
verb take the place or move into the position of

But only by the replacing of the cap was that omen accounted good. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville
Then came the replacing of the boards--could they possibly do it in the time? — Fifty-Two Stories For Girls, Unknown
One task occupied him a little while--the replacing of the lock on the door--but after that the hours passed heavily and in silence. — The Candidate: A Political Romance, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

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