| Main Entry: | substitution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | replacement |
Synonyms: |
change, exchange, swap, trade |
| Concept: | [Change of one thing for another] Substitution. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE CHANGE |
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-nouns
substitution, commutation; supplanting; metaphor, metonymy (figure of speech)., [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative., representative (deputy); palimpsest., price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.
-verbs
substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into the shoes of, stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.
-adjectives
substituted; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious.
-adverbs
instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.
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| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trade; deal |
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barter, buying and selling, castling, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, dealing, interchange, interdependence, interrelation, network, quid pro quo, rearrangement, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement, revision, shift, shuffle, shuffling, substitution, supplanting, supplantment, swap, switch, tit for tat, traffic, transaction, transfer, transposing, transposition, truck |
| Main Entry: | repair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restoration, fixing |
Synonyms: |
adjustment, darn, improvement, mend, new part, overhaul, patch, reconstruction, reformation, rehabilitation, replacement, substitution |
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breaking, damage, destruction, harm, hurt, injury, neglect, wrecking |
| Main Entry: | shift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | switch, fluctuation |
Synonyms: |
about-face, alteration, bend, change, changeover, conversion, deflection, deviation, displacement, double, fault, modification, move, passage, permutation, rearrangement, removal, shifting, substitution, tack, transfer, transference, transformation, transit, translocation, turn, variation, veering, yaw |
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deactivation, maintenance, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | switch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, exchange |
Synonyms: |
about-face, alteration, change of direction, reversal, shift, substitution, swap, transformation |
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inactivity, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | transfer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change of possession |
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alteration, assignment, conduction, convection, deportation, displacement, move, relegation, relocation, removal, shift, substitution, transference, translation, transmission, transmittal, transposition, variation |
Antonyms: |
hold, keeping |
| Main Entry: | replacing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | replacement |
Synonyms: |
reconstitution, rehabilitation, reinstatement, renewal, restoration, substitution |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | transfer |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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alienable, contagious, cruciferous, drifted, efferent, gerent, mastigophoric, movable, onerary, peak, portative, prehensile, smittlish, superlunar, surpassing, transanimating, transferred, transmundane, transnational, tursable, ultra vires, ultramontane, ultramundane
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