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place
  1. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
    1. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
    2. A group of houses.
    3. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
    4. Any area of the earth: a region.
    5. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
    6. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
    7. An area of the skin.
    8. (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
    9. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
  2. A location or position in space.
  3. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
  4. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
  5. (rhetoric) A topic.
  6. A frame of mind.
  7. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
  8. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
    1. A role or purpose; a station.
    2. The position of a contestant in a competition.
    3. (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
    4. The position as a member of a sports team.
  9. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
  10. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
  11. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
  12. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
  13. Synonyms:
  14. Examples:
    1. “I've found the perfect place at the park for a picnic.”
      “The historical city of Prague is a great place to visit.”
      “I can't wait to move out and get my own place.”
placeable
  1. (business) A jobseeker who is considered by an employment agency to be suitable for placement, but not employment, with a client company.
  2. (translation studies) In computer-aided translation, an element, such as a symbol or numeral, that is the same in both source and target segments and can therefore be copied directly from one into the other.
  3. (morphology) Something which is conventionally associated with a specific place; for example, blinds go on windows, carpets go on floors.
placement
  1. The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
  2. A location or position.
  3. The act of matching a person with a job
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The learners eventually began to use and recognize English sentences with the correct placement of adverbs.”
      “Charles will be 57 this year, and we still haven't been able to find a good work experience placement for him.”
      “Its proper placement is yet to be determined by a more complete taxonomic sampling.”
placing
placegetter
  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A race competitor or competition entrant who or that places among the top three (or other number chosen to receive recognition and/or a prize), or in a specified position (place).
  2. (horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A horse that finishes among the first three of a race, or in a specified place.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Second placegetter will receive a Honda ATC200 Farm Trike and third and fourth placegetters a Sachs Dolmar Chain Saw each.”
      “I was utterly unprepared for the reception I received when I trotted up towards the stall reserved for the second placegetter, in the Saddling Enclosure.”
placename
  1. The name of a place; a word or phrase which indicates a particular location or region.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The placename of our little town is incredibly unique.”
      “The placename literally means 'the small church of Davnet' and refers to the 7th Century saint Dympna who built a small church here.”
      “Wikipedia has a fuller, highly amusing list of counterintuitive placename pronunciations.”
placeability
  1. The quality or degree of being placeable.
placelessness
  1. The state or quality of being placeless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The sense of placelessness in the novel created an eerie atmosphere, as if the characters belonged nowhere in particular.”
placeness
  1. The quality of being a place.
placeabilities
  1. plural of placeability
placegetters
  1. plural of placegetter
placeables
  1. plural of placeable
  2. Examples:
    1. “I worked for an employment agency, doing placements. They divided the girls into placeables and unplaceables.”
placenames
placements
  1. plural of placement
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is one of the most basic placements, but this shouldn't lull you into a false sense of security or over confidence.”
      “The biotechnology company has, through a number of well-timed share placements, bucket loads of money.”
      “Hogarth said he had visited schools across Scotland where week-long work placements were working well.”
placings
  1. plural of placing
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There was the same result in the breaststroke while, in freestyle, Sean reversed the placings, narrowly pipping his brother.”
      “Time and time again he also outsprinted the German for minor placings after breakaways had won stages.”
      “It specialises in private placings, bond offerings, secondary offerings and initial public offerings.”
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