replaceable
- adjective
- /rɪˈpleɪsəbl/
- 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?
- There are things that I would miss not having around, but those are all replaceable things, right?
- Every single person in this room is completely replaceable.
- All of these things that we own, these material possessions, they're replaceable.
- And and rightfully, I think, you know, the expression, everybody's replaceable.
- If that really takes off, their value starts to increase and it's less replaceable.
- The sub liberal message obvious being don't take yourself too seriously, you are replaceable.
- No matter how successful you are, no matter how many people watch your show, everybody's replaceable.
- Everybody is replaceable and that is related to their malformed sense of self, not yours.
- So the biggest thing I learned, Ed, the biggest thing I learned is that every single one of us is replaceable.
- But since the transaction is core to the narcissistic relationship, of course we feel replaceable.
- So the challenge comes when you realize in the job that you are just a tool, that you're replaceable.
- So these, these are more or less replaceable pieces of hardware like like our neural Nets.
Examples
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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.
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There are things that I would miss not having around, but those are all replaceable things, right?
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First, I am replaceable and you are not.
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After all, cars are replaceable.
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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.
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Everything is replaceable.
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Well, everyone's replaceable.
Synonyms
A person or thing you can use instead of another that still works the same
Able to be traded or replaced by a similar thing
Can be exchanged for another of the same kind
You can replace it with something similar without changing what it does or means
Can be changed for a similar part or version
Antonyms
How Replaceable
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.