replacing

4 definitions • 4 examples

present participle of

to take the place of something, or to put something or someone in the place of something or someone else:

The factory replaced most of its workers with robots.

Tourism has replaced agriculture as the nation's main industry.

If you replace something broken, damaged, or lost, you provide a new one:

I promised to replace the plate that I'd dropped.

to put something back where it was before:

The librarian replaced the books correctly on the shelves.