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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
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location (plural locations)
- A particular point or place in physical space.
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68: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.
- 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 [1]:
- 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; a 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 […]
- (law) A leasing on rent.
- (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.[1]
- (law, US) 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[2]
- (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
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- Albanian: vend (sq)
- Arabic: مَوْقِع (ar) m (mawqiʕ), مَكَان (ar) m (makān), مَوْضِع m (mawḍiʕ)
- Egyptian Arabic: مكان m (makān)
- Moroccan Arabic: بلاصة (blāṣa)
- Azerbaijani: yer (az), qonuq
- Belarusian: месцазнахо́джанне n (mjescaznaxódžannje), стано́вішча n (stanóvišča), ме́сца (be) n (mjésca)
- Bengali: জায়গা (bn) (jaẏga), স্থান (bn) (sthan)
- Bulgarian: мя́сто (bg) n (mjásto), местоположе́ние (bg) n (mestopoložénie)
- Catalan: ubicació (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 位置 (zh) (wèizhi), 場所 / 场所 (zh) (chǎngsuǒ), 地點 / 地点 (zh) (dìdiǎn), 地方 (zh) (dìfang)
- Czech: poloha (cs) f, umístění (cs), místo (cs)
- Danish: beliggenhed c, sted (da) n, plads (da) c
- Dutch: plaats (nl) f, locatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: loko, situo (eo)
- Estonian: asukoht, ruum (et)
- Finnish: paikka (fi), sijainti (fi)
- French: lieu (fr) m, localisation (fr) f, situation (fr) f, emplacement (fr), position (fr)
- Georgian: მდებარეობა (mdebareoba), ადგილმდებარეობა (adgilmdebareoba), ადგილი (ka) (adgili), ადგილსამყოფელი (adgilsamq̇opeli)
- German: Lage (de) f, Ort (de) m, Platz (de) m, Standort (de) m
- Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 m (staþs)
- Greek: τοποθεσία (el) f (topothesía), θέση (el) f (thési)
- Hindi: अवस्थिति (hi) f (avsthiti)
- Icelandic: staðsetning f, staður (is) m
- Italian: posizione (it) f, ubicazione (it) f
- Japanese: 位置 (ja) (いち, ichi), 場所 (ja) (ばしょ, basho), 地点 (ja) (ちてん, chiten)
- Khmer: ស្ថាន (km) (sthaan), ថាន (thaan)
- Korean: 위치(位置) (ko) (wichi), 장소(場所) (ko) (jangso), 지점(地點) (ko) (jijeom)
- Lao: ສະຖານ (sa thān)
- Latin: locus (la) m
- Macedonian: место n (mesto), местоположба f (mestopoložba), локација f (lokacija)
- Māori: taiwhanga, wāhi, tauwāhi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sted (no) n, beliggenhet m or f
- Nynorsk: stad m
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: мѣсто n (město)
- Old English: stow f
- Persian: جایگاه (fa) (jâygâh), محل (fa) (mahall), مکان (fa) (makân)
- Plautdietsch: Städ f
- Polish: lokalizacja (pl) f, położenie (pl) n, miejsce (pl) n
- Portuguese: local (pt) m, localização (pt) f
- Romanian: localizarea
- Russian: положе́ние (ru) n (položénije), местоположе́ние (ru) n (mestopoložénije), местонахожде́ние (ru) n (mestonaxoždénije), расположе́ние (ru) n (raspoložénije), пози́ция (ru) f (pozícija), ме́сто (ru) n (mésto)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ме̏сто n, мје̏сто n, лока́ција f
- Latin: mȅsto (sh) n, mjȅsto (sh) n, lokácija (sh) f
- Sinhalese: ස්ථානය (si) (sthānaya)
- Slovak: poloha (sk) f, umiestnenie n, miesto (sk) n
- Slovene: lokacija f, mesto (sl) n, kraj (sl) m
- Spanish: ubicación (es) f, locación (es) f, localización (es) f
- Swedish: läge (sv) n, plats (sv) c
- Tajik: ҷойгоҳ (joygoh), макон (makon), маҳалл (mahall), маҳал (mahal)
- Thai: ตำแหน่ง (th) (dtam-nɛ̀ng), สถานที่ (th) (sà-tǎan-tîi), ที่ (th) (tîi)
- Tocharian B: wṣeñña, īke
- Turkish: konum (tr), yer (tr), lokasyon (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: مكان (mekân)
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎋𐎐𐎚 (mknt)
- Ukrainian: місцеполо́ження n (miscepolóžennja), поло́ження n (polóžennja), розташува́ння n (roztašuvánnja), мі́сце (uk) n (mísce), місцезнаходження n (misceznaxodžennja)
- Vietnamese: vị trí (vi), địa điểm (vi)
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administrative region in Kenya References
- ^ a. 1768, John Erskine of Carnock, An Institute of the Law of Scotland
- ^ John Bouvier (1839), “LOCATION”, in A Law Dictionary, […], volumes II (L–Z), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […], →OCLC.
Further reading
- “location”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “location”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “location”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin locātiōnem.
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Noun
location f (plural locations)
- renting, rental
- rent
- rented accommodation
2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:L'article indique que j'ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j'étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.- The article suggests that I ‘abused favourable prices in the City of Paris’ with regard to the intermediary housing of which I was a tenant. I wish to clarify that this accommodation had been allocated under normal, regular conditions in 2001, six years before I was elected Deputy.
- hire (of a car etc.)
- booking, reservation
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