What does "location" mean?

A particular point or place in physical space.

What is a synonym for "location"?

Common synonyms include: localization, place, placement, a place, abode, address.

Pronounced //ləʊˈkeɪʃən//.

//ləʊˈkeɪʃən// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Noun

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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 the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled."
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a point or extent in space; a point or extent in space wordnet
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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."
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a determination of the place where something is wordnet
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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[…]"

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the act of putting something in a certain place wordnet
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A leasing on rent.
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a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made wordnet
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A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. Scotland
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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 US
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An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations. Kenya