Placement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Placement \Place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. placement.]
     1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
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     2. Position; place.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  placement
       n 1: the spatial property of the way in which something is
            placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the
            placement of the chairs" [syn: {arrangement}]
       2: contact established between applicants and prospective
          employees; "the agency provided placement services"
       3: the act of putting something in a certain place or location
          [syn: {location}, {locating}, {position}, {positioning}, {emplacement}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "placement":
     abode, accedence, accession, accounting for, allocation, allotment,
     analysis, answerability, application, appointment, apportionment,
     area, arrangement, array, arraying, arrogation, ascription,
     assignation, assignment, assortment, attachment, attribution,
     bearings, bench mark, blame, cataloging, categorization, charge,
     classification, codification, collation, collocation,
     connection with, constitution, coronation, credit, culling,
     deployment, deposit, deposition, derivation from, disposal,
     disposition, distribution, district, division, emplacement,
     employment, engagement, enthronement, etiology, filing, form,
     formation, formulation, gradation, grading, grouping, hiring, hole,
     honor, imputation, inauguration, indexing, induction, installation,
     installment, instatement, investiture, lading,
     latitude and longitude, lieu, loading, locale, locality,
     localization, locating, location, locus, marshaling, order,
     ordering, organization, packing, palaetiology, pigeonholing,
     pinpoint, pinpointing, place, placing, point, position,
     positioning, posting, putting, ranging, ranking, rating,
     reference to, regimentation, region, reposition, responsibility,
     saddling, screening, selection, sifting, site, situation, situs,
     sorting, sorting out, spot, spotting, stationing, stead, storage,
     stowage, stratification, structuring, subdivision, subordination,
     syntax, tabulation, taking office, taxonomy, triage, typology,
     whereabout, whereabouts