location
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location
- /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/ UK
- /loʊˈkeɪʃən/ US
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
noun locations
- 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 income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither
- 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.
- An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township. 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.
- 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
- An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Similar: a place
