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replaceable

replaceable

15 3.3
Someone can change it for another thing or person when needed
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈpleɪsəbl/
translation icon : reemplazable
  • The printer has a replaceable ink cartridge that you can easily swap out when it runs low.
  • easily replaceable
  • field-replaceable

There are things that I would miss not having around, but those are all replaceable things, right?

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Examples

  • As Marx remarked, this anonymous and replaceable individual became alienated from his work and from such a society.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Reliable e-mail, replaceable batteries so you could bring a few of them with you on a business trip and you could drop the phone and it would keep on working.

  • There are things that I would miss not having around, but those are all replaceable things, right?

  • First, I am replaceable and you are not.

  • After all, cars are replaceable.

  • Most of the cards in the deck are simply not replaceable with cheaper cards.

    Blog text (3)
  • The internal measuring chamber is made of a thermoplastic compound and is replaceable as a unit.

    Academic text (2003)
  • These turning chisels have a replaceable carbide tip.

  • Everything is replaceable.

  • Well, everyone's replaceable.

Synonyms

interchangeable
vsreplaceable
24 4.8

A person or thing you can use instead of another that still works the same

is broader and allows another to take its place sometimes reducing function
exchangeable
vsreplaceable
1 4.0

Able to be traded or replaced by a similar thing

is broader and focuses on usefulness rather than commercial transfer
swappable
vsreplaceable
1 3.9

Can be exchanged for another of the same kind

is more general and may let a different kind perform the role
substitutable
vsreplaceable
5.9

You can replace it with something similar without changing what it does or means

is more general and may alter meaning or function when another takes its place
switchable
vsreplaceable
4.0

Can be changed for a similar part or version

is a general capacity that can apply to long term changes not rapid shifts

Antonyms

32 6.4

So special or valuable that you cannot get another one

How Replaceable

replaceable
15 3.3
irreplaceable
32 6.4

Surface Forms

replaceable positive

Morphology

replaceable = replace (semi-transparent) = re + place + able

The adjective is formed in a fully regular way from the verb 'replace' plus '-able', meaning 'able to be replaced'.

Etymology

The word replaceable breaks into re- ('again'), place ('put'), and -able ('able to be'), so something replaceable can be 'put again' or 'swapped' for something else, which is why it means 'able to be substituted'.