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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Kelly Hubbell, the founder and CEO of house-manager placement company Sage Haus, said her company has gathered a database of over 25,000 workers searching for this kind of gig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Town + Country, a domestic placement agency owned by Care.com, has seen a 64% increase in requests for house managers so far this year compared to 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
New Jersey’s law, also passed this year, bars landlords from prohibiting balcony solar while requiring tenants to provide notice and adhere to “reasonable restrictions” on panel size and placement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
"Its all the same: the same piano feel, the same microphone placement, the same tape machine, has been used on every single one of these tracks."
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
EJI now had a social worker on staff, Maria Morrison, who began working with Walter and his family to find a suitable placement for him.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
More disturbing are the annual Tarbell fellowships: “10 weeks of intensive AI journalism fundamentals training” and then “9 month placements at a newsroom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
If the answer is a private-equity or asset-management firm, ask how much of the general account sits in private placements and loans to affiliates.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Nevertheless, the pattern offers a possible explanation for why apparently similar electrode placements can produce different results.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
On the second day in Faisalabad, Rana was at square leg when he appeared to halt the game to object to one of England captain Mike Gatting's field placements.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Then she lowered her voice and said something about wanting to make sure the Grovers were ruled out as placements.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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