Definition for RE-PLACE

RE-PLACE, v.t. [Fr. replacer; re and place.]

  1. To put again in the former place; as, to replace a book. The earl … was replaced in his government. – Bacon.
  2. To put in a new place. – Dryden.
  3. To repay; to refund; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
  4. To put a competent substitute in the place of another displaced, or of something lost. The paper is lost, and can not be replaced.

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