substitutive

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The concern, I think I, and some other folks who watch this industry have, is that this type of automation is purely substitutive.

From The Verge • Mar. 23, 2021

By contrast, performance-improving innovations either create few new jobs because they’re substitutive, or they destroy jobs through gains in productivity.

From Forbes • Oct. 15, 2014

"Gee, I've found a friend," said Oscar, who once confessed that his troubles revolved around "acute anxieties, ritualistic compulsions, substitutive obsessions and irrational hostilities."

From Time Magazine Archive

As to treatment, in one instance the induction of a substitutive dermatic inflammation had a favorable influence.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

These two possibilities are by no means mutually exclusive, and we are inclined to think that both substitutive processes may have co-operated in bringing about this custom.

From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)