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Displacement
01
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
Grammatical Information
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Composition
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Uncountable
Plural form
displacements
02
the act of uniform movement
03
an event in which something is displaced without rotation
04
act of removing from office or employment
05
to move something from its natural environment
06
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
07
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
08
expulsion of people from their homes, typically caused by war, persecution, or natural catastrophe
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