The phrase "replacement purchase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a purchase made to replace an old or broken item. For example: "I had to make a replacement purchase for my laptop after it stopped working." "After my phone was stolen, I had to make a replacement purchase for a new one."
In more developed countries, such as the United States, the challenge is to elicit a replacement purchase because most customers already own most standard pieces of furniture.
Interestingly, replacement purchase was not associated with being a case herd in our study and suggested elsewhere [ 2, 16, 17, 22].
These so-called replacement purchases can stimulate the economy and prompt further spending down the road.
"He's done very well, and he will probably create a strong wave of replacement purchases, but the realities of the industry raise questions about whether he can spur a permanent shift in market share".
China's phone market, which accounted for a third of all smartphone sales worldwide in 2015, is already slowing as the number of first-time phone buyers declines and people delay replacement purchases.
Replacement purchases are also changing the look and feel of budget phones.
Nokia says that replacement purchases are now on par with first-time sales across emerging markets as a whole.
Meanwhile, Archstone and the like have adopted a more cautious strategy: They've sold entire buildings to condo developers and channeled the proceeds into replacement purchases of larger apartment houses with good potential but in need of fixing up.
The heterogeneous equipment used in endoscopy departments with different washer-disinfectors is not only the result of the fact that there are various manufacturers, but is also due to the time intervals at which new devices are acquired and by replacement purchasing that sometimes involves a change of manufacturer.
The three hundred and eighty million dollars that Congress recently authorized come from unspent HAVA grants, and are intended to replace the replacement machines purchased a decade and a half ago, most of which have outlived their use-by date.
Mr. Shiffler also expects a new surge of replacement desktop purchases in the next few years.
