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Replacement vs Reconstruction - What's the difference?

replacement | reconstruction |

As a noun replacement

is a person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

As a proper noun reconstruction is

a period of the history of the united states from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-confederate states, the ex-confederate leaders, and the freedmen (ex-slaves) after the american civil war.

replacement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
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    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Rovers lost keeper Robinson to a calf problem at half-time and his replacement Mark Bunn, making his Premier League debut, was immediately called into action - pushing away a vicious Peter Odemwingie drive at the near post.}}
  • The act of replacing something.

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    * See also

    Derived terms

    * overreplacement * subreplacement
    See also
    * spare part

    reconstruction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
  • The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
    • The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.
  • A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.
    • The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.

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