location
See also: Location
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
NounEdit
location (plural locations)
- A particular point or place in physical space.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- 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.
- An act of locating.
- 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:
- 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.
- 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:
- (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
- 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]
- 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
- (law) A leasing on rent.
- (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire[1].
- (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[2]
- (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
SynonymsEdit
- (a place): place
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → German: Location
TranslationsEdit
place
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act of locating
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ a. 1768, John Erskine of Carnock, An Institute of the Law of Scotland
- ^ 1839. John Bouvier, Law Dictionary
Further readingEdit
- location in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- location in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- location at OneLook Dictionary Search
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin locatio(nem), from locatum, from locare (“to rent, hire”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
location f (plural locations)
- renting, rental
- rent
- rented accommodation
- 2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:
- L'article indique que j'ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j'étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.
- The article suggests that I ‘abused favourable prices in the City of Paris’ with regard to the intermediary housing of which I was a tenant. I wish to clarify that this accommodation had been allocated under normal, regular conditions in 2001, six years before I was elected Deputy.
- 2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:
- hire (of a car etc.)
- booking, reservation
Usage notesEdit
- A false friend of the English location, whose French equivalents include endroits, lieu, and emplacement.
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “location”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.