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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A draft of the study didn’t propose only one solution but advocated for 23 different strategies, including bluff stabilization, catchment walls, sand placement, engineered revetments or seawalls and rail-foundation improvements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Hundreds of licences have been issued this year to influencers, who make money from product placement or sponsoring.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Though the state’s public universities still don’t use scores from the SAT and the similar ACT exam in admissions, they do use the exams as one factor in determining course placement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The latest fundraising by Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu AI 2513 -3.17%decrease; down pointing triangle , comes less than two months after the company raised US$4.0 billion through a share placement in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
My backpack, of blessed memory, could fit four schoolbooks in it, but the Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag was clearly designed for product placement and not storage capacity.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
He welcomed the national push for work experience and said with placements "extremely difficult" to secure more support was needed from employers.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Todd said the government had taken "important steps" - including funding more than 1,100 residential rehabilitation placements last year - but that it was clear much more needed to be done.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Caroline said children might get "placed," but questioned if available placements were being "prioritised over actual suitable placements".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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
I did not recall that other placements had been almost as crowded.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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