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location

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noun/ləʊˈkeɪʃən//loʊˈkeɪʃən/
  1. 1

    A particular point or place in physical space.

    • 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 incom
  2. 2

    An act of locating.

    • 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.
  3. 3

    An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.South-Africa

    • It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]
  4. 4

    A leasing on rent.

  5. 5

    A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.Scotland

  6. 6

    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, etcUS

  7. 7

    An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.Kenya

syn. a place

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