Traducción & Definición
to replace: reemplazar, sustituir
I'm here to replace the assistant during her maternity leave. I'll do her job while she's absent. Estoy aquí para reemplazar a la secretaria durante su permiso de maternidad. Cumpliré sus funciones mientras esté ausente.
a replacement: un reemplazo, una sustitución; un repuesto, un recambio
One of the windows in my car is broken and I need to buy a replacement. I'm going to go to the shop now because without a new window I can't use my car. Se rompió una de las ventanillas del coche y necesito comprar un repuesto. Voy a ir al taller ahora porque sin la ventanilla no puedo usar el coche.
Ejemplos
- "If anyone has any ideas of what to build on the second floor to replace the laboratory, your suggestions are welcome!"
- "I want to thank you for your invaluable help over the last few weeks: Replacing the majority of our workforce with automatons and robots was no easy task, but your help in reducing our fragile, fleshy and weak human staff was done with ruthless, near robotic, efficiency."
- "Samantha : I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you can never hope to replace Sheeba."
- "And I know exactly what you should replace it with..."
- "I don't want to be replaced, Bruno."
- "Owner : I can't give you a refund, but I can replace him with another animal."
- "Replace Bruno's dead pet with one that's alive!"
- "He's the robot that will replace you."
- "Samantha : If I may, sir, camels are amazing animals, and I am currently in a serious relationship with one, but there is no way that a camel could replace a human being at a highly skilled office job!"
- "Narrator: And finally we move to the office of CEO Bruno Delavigne, where Special Assistant Brian Jones has been replaced by a camel."
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