The phrase "attract replacement" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could be used in contexts discussing the need for new personnel or items to fill a vacancy or void.
Example: "The company is struggling to attract replacement staff after the recent layoffs."
Alternatives: "draw in substitutes" or "bring in replacements."
As more powerful rivals lured clients like Julia Roberts over the years, I.C.M. failed to attract replacements of similar caliber.
Employers can pay the replacements lower wages, although as is the case with American Crystal, the companies sometimes need to offer higher wages and help pay for housing to attract replacements.
And the restoration project has driven out the area's original residents, without attracting replacements.
Now, further budget troubles are looming, 2,400 officers are set to retire this year and low starting wages are failing to attract enough replacements.
This helps break the cycle of attracting young "replacement" smokers progressively taking the place of those older smokers who have quit or, too often, died.
Display cases feature Macy's memorabilia, including porcelain dinnerware from 1911, an early electric blender, old golf balls and a ruffly black jacket dating to the 1860s that looks like something a Civil War widow might have worn to her husband's wake in hopes of attracting his replacement.
Leon Barmore, who retired one month ago, returned to Louisiana Tech yesterday to relieve pressure on school officials who failed to attract his desired replacement.
Nor is it always easy to attract big-name replacements.
In these cases, his stock converts into single-vote Class A shares so that Facebook could attract a higher quality replacement CEO since an absent Zuckerberg wouldn't still control the company.
Former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola is off the shortlist after agreeing to take over at Bayern Munich at the end of the season and Wilkins predicts more widespread difficulties attracting a potential replacement for Benitez.
