placement
Americannoun
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placements
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the act of placing.
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the state of being placed.
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the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
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location; arrangement.
the placement of furniture.
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Football.
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the placing of the ball on the ground in attempting a place kick.
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the position of the ball.
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a place kick.
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a score made by a place kick.
Jones made 43 consecutive placements last season.
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(in tennis, badminton, handball, etc.) a winning shot in which the ball or shuttlecock is so hit that one's opponent is unable to return it.
noun
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the act of placing or the state of being placed
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arrangement or position
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the process or business of finding employment
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Mice treated with the optimized scaffold performed better on a grid-walking test designed to measure mistakes in forelimb placement.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
That is split evenly between a private placement for Nvidia that will close alongside the IPO, and a prepaid forward contract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
She also said there would be an opportunity for a student from the university to help roll out the survey thanks to a paid student placement from the county council.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
He did so on various grounds, including that they had not examined Pike before rendering an opinion about whether her veins were too small to handle the required IV placement.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
She was supposed to be taking a test for her math placement, a test everyone else had taken last week.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Those placements are then auctioned off to the highest bidder.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
FTC officials say Amazon has secretly inflated the minimum prices required to win ad placements, intervening in auctions to raise the price 70% to 80% of the time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
According to the suit, Sharell worked through the Merit Street bankruptcy and the subsequent establishment of Envoy Media, “receiving assignments and direction” from McGraw, dealing with executives and securing media placements among other duties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Bidders will be given extra credit for creating local jobs paying above the minimum wage, plugging local skills gaps by offering training and particularly by offering 45-day work experience placements for young people.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Gay handed her the list of my placements that she had found in my files, which showed the eight months I had lived with the Mosses.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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