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fill-in vs replacement

replacement vs fill-in

fill-in and replacement both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
fill-in Yes No No No
replacement Yes No No No
As nouns, replacement is a hyponym of fill-in; that is, replacement is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fill-in:
  • fill-in: someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
  • replacement: someone who takes the place of another person
Other hyponyms of fill-in include locum, locum tenens, double, alternate, surrogate.
fill-in (noun) replacement (noun)
someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
an event in which one thing is substituted for another
a person who follows next in order
someone who takes the place of another person
filling again by supplying what has been used up
Difference between fill-in and replacement

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