location
/loʊˈkeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.86 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A particular point or place in physical space.
noun
An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
noun
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
American usage
noun
An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
- British English: /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
Usage
- American usage