location
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/]
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Senses
1. location (noun) — sense 1
Definition: A particular point or place in physical space.
Example: 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. location (noun) — sense 2
Definition: An act of locating.
Example: 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. location (noun) — sense 3
Definition: An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
Example: It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]
Structure of the word
Roots:- stel (Proto-Indo-European)
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