Location

Quick meaning: Location is a noun meaning A particular point or place in physical space.

Meaning

A particular point or place in physical space.

More Meanings

1. An act of locating.
2. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
3. (law) A leasing on rent.
4. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
5. (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
6. (law, US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc

Example Sentences

It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]

The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

Word Forms

• locations

Synonyms for location

Depending on context, synonyms include position, fix, placement, emplacement, locating, localization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include position, placement, positioning, localization, localisation, emplacement.

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