Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being replaced; that may be replaced.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.
  • adjective Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent.
  • adjective (Chem.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being replaced.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being replaced

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

replace +‎ -able

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Examples

  • It builds in replaceable “feet” that you know in time will deteriorate.

    Build An A-Frame Vegetable Trellis For Small Footprint Gardening | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Endpapers have always been replaceable, that is until the fetishists took over the collecting game.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Endpapers have always been replaceable, that is until the fetishists took over the collecting game.

    Dear Bibliobull - re-endpapering 2008

  • User replaceable: the battery is user replaceable, which is handy in case it completely dies (yes, it happens).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

  • Unions aren't perfect, and they don't always pick the right causes to fight for, but they have to exist precisely because the vast majority of workers are replaceable, which is to say not special, which is to say vulnerable.

    Suburban Guerrilla 2010

  • The battery lasts a week or more with Whispernet turned off and is user replaceable, which is a big plus.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2008

  • Like some other special homemade toys we own, they understand these dolls aren't "replaceable" the way a Polly Pocket would be.

    On Costly Toys regina doman 2007

  • Like some other special homemade toys we own, they understand these dolls aren't "replaceable" the way a Polly Pocket would be.

    Archive 2007-02-01 regina doman 2007

  • Animators - 2D and 3D alike - are as "replaceable" as they ever were.

    Disney Tuesday Steve Hulett 2008

  • Everyone is "replaceable" and everyone is a unique snowflake ... some are just more useful snowflakes than others.

    Got something off my desk! 2006

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