location

Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate +‎ -ion.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

location (plural locations)

1. A particular point or place in physical space.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, 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.

2. 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.

3. (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 […]

4. (law) A leasing on rent.
5. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.^[1]
6. (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]
7. (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

• (a place): place

• → German: Location

• “location”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “location”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “location”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• colation, coontail

Borrowed from Latin locātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/

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location f (plural locations)

1. renting, rental
2. rent
3. 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.

4. hire (of a car etc.)
5. booking, reservation

• A false friend of the English location, whose French equivalents include endroit, lieu, and emplacement.

• lieu
• locatif
• louer
• loyer

• établissement

• “location”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.