Location
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Origin
From Latin locatio ("a placing"), from locare ("to place, put, set, let"), from locus ("a place").
Full definition of location
Noun
location
(plural locations)- A particular point or place in physical space.
- 2013-06-22, T time, 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 incomeâ€: 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.
- 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location: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.
- (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
- 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations...
Synonyms
- (a place) place