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placement

Pronunciation:  'pleysmunt

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Matching Terms:  placement center, placement office

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  contact established between applicants and prospective employees; "the agency provided placement services"
  2. [n]  the act of putting something in a certain place or location
  3. [n]  the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs"
 
 Synonyms: arrangement, emplacement, locating, location, position, positioning
 
 See Also: activity, alignment, apposition, balance, collocation, columniation, composing, composition, contact, fenestration, fingering, formation, implantation, interposition, juxtaposition, misalignment, orientation, planting, position, proportion, ramification, repositioning, set, spacing, spatial arrangement, spatial relation, stratification, superposition

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. placement.]
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

2. Position; place.

 
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