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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinlocatio, locationis(“a placing”), fromlocare(“to place, put, set, let”), fromlocus(“a place”). Equivalent tolocate +‎-ion.

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location (plurallocations)

  1. A particularpoint orplace in physicalspace.
    • 2013 June 22, “T time”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8841, page68:
      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 thelocation of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
  2. An act oflocating.
    • 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 statutorylocation of a mining claim.
  3. (South Africa) Anapartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; atownship.
    • 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors,The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, page188:
      It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, thelocations[…]
  4. (law) Aleasing onrent.
  5. (law, Scotland) Acontract 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) Anadministrativeregion inKenya, belowcounties andsubcounties, and further divided intosublocations.

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place
act of locating
administrative region in Kenya

References

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  1. ^a. 1768,John Erskine of Carnock,An Institute of the Law of Scotland
  2. ^John Bouvier (1839) “LOCATION”, inA Law Dictionary, […], volumes II (L–Z), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […],→OCLC.

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French

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FWOTD – 20 December 2012

Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinlocātiōnem.

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location f (plurallocations)

  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 cettelocation 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 thisaccommodation 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

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