displacement

Noun

• act of removing from office or employment

• to move something from its natural environment

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

• (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

• the act of uniform movement

• an event in which something is displaced without rotation

• act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  deracination , displacement reaction , translation , shift , supplanting