Pronunciations (4)
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/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
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/loʊˈkeɪʃən/
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loʊˈkeɪʃən
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ləʊˈkeɪʃən
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- GB
Noun
A particular point or place in physical space.
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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.
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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.
An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
Usage- South-Africa
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It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]
A leasing on rent.
A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
Usage- Scotland
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
Usage- US usage
An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Usage- Kenya
Noun
a point or extent in space; a point or extent in space
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the act of putting something in a certain place
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a determination of the place where something is
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he got a good fix on the target
a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made
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they shot the film on location in Nevada