in place
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.70 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adv
Into a proper or intended position; into place.
adv
Into a state of deployment or implementation.
Example Sentences
- "The girders were carefully set in place."
- "New procedures were put in place."
- "He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair."
- "Asked if such a service could be put in place again, rather than buses, Mellors said: "I think the key thing is the first two weeks of January are pretty unique, in so far as the renewal of a bridge over the M6 at Penrith is very much a once-in-a-generation project."
- "They ran in place with full packs for an hour."
- "In the event of a radiation leak, shelter in place: do not attempt to find a community shelter."