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REPLENISHMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does replenishment mean?
• REPLENISHMENT (noun)
The noun REPLENISHMENT has 1 sense:
1. filling again by supplying what has been used up
Familiarity information: REPLENISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filling again by supplying what has been used up
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
refilling; renewal; replacement; replenishment
Hypernyms ("replenishment" is a kind of...):
filling (flow into something (as a container))
Derivation:
replenish (fill something that had previously been emptied)
Context examples
In medicine, calcium chloride is also used as a 10% solution in injection, for calcium replenishment.
(Calcium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)
Our stores of provisions, supplemented by our guns, were holding out well, but the day must come when they would need replenishment.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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