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placement

nounattested in dialogue

  • Canada//ˈpleɪ̯smənt//
  • Canada/[ˈpʰleɪ̯smn̩t]/
  • Australia//ˈplæ̝ɪ̯smənt//
  • //ˈpleːsmənt//
  • /[ˈpʰleːsmn̩t]/

The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.

  2. 2

    A location or position.

    It seems to me that the placement of that poster could be better.

  3. 3

    The act of matching a person with a job.

    The agency does not guarantee placement, but they work on commission.

  4. 4

    A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.

    During my first placement on Enabling Works on the Curzon Street Station site, I was able to visit the site on many occasions, which allowed me to gain a greater appreciation of the work that goes into a project of this scale.

  5. 5

    The zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.

Etymology

Etymology tree English place Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English placement From place + -ment.

Forms

plural
placements
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).