locationn.
/lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /loʊˈkeɪʃən/ 1. † b. Appointment to an official position. Cf. locate v. 3. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only in the works of Jeremy Bentham: cf. locate v. 3.
a. The action of situating something; (also) the fact or condition of being placed; settlement in a place.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun]
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pitchinga1398
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instalment1646
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lodgement1713
repositing1713
emplacement1742
bestowal1773
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disposal1828
placement1844
allocation1846
enlodgement1884
siting1902
1568 W. Stewart in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 216 Mak plane proclamatioun To gaddir all sic bybillis [read lybillis] besely And in the fyre mak thair locatioun.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Location, a placing.
1682 N. Grew Of Mixture i. iii. §7 in Anat. Plants 226 As Mixture is varied with respect to the Bodies Mixed; so likewise in respect of the Mixture it self, which I call the Location of Principles, or the Modes of their Conjunction.
1799 J. Winthrop in New-Eng. Hist. & Geneal. Reg. (1873) XXVII. 354 The location of the camps and the idea of an harbor are mine.
1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales I. v. 166 For opening new settlements for the location of additional free settlers.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. x. 342 The Castilian officers, to whom the location of the camp had been intrusted.
1891 Month 73 433 The location and translocation of spirits.
1901 Scotsman 13 Mar. 9/6 A possible location of batches of 1000 Boers at Dehra.
2010 Code of Federal Regulations: 24: Housing & Urban Devel. (Office of Federal Register, U.S.) 295/1 All joints and seams in exterior wall coverings that were disturbed during location of the home must be made weatherproof.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > appointment to office or position
deputation1393
location1816
binding1834
1816 J. Bentham Introductory View 7 in Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized Remuneration to the intended functionaries..for the time and labour requisite to be expended on their part; before location, in qualifying themselves for rendering their several official services; after location, in the actual rendering of those same services.
1816 J. Bentham Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized 18 System of official location, or, for shortness, the location system.
c. The action of finding or determining the exact position of a person or thing.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > ascertaining or determining position of anything
localization1832
position-finding1877
location1900
1900 Geogr. Jrnl. Oct. 382 These birds [sc. penguins] must have a wonderful power of location.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1310 The external ear-trumpet or pinna collects the waves of sound, and, when we move our head about, it helps in their location.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 276 These help in the exact location of editing points on tape.
2001 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 4 Apr. (Local section) 11 The AFP is appealing to the public for information that could assist in the location of the boys.
2. Civil Law and Scots Law.
a. The action of hiring or letting property or services. Frequently in collocation with conduction n. Now only in contract of location n. at sense 2b.
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society > trade and finance > selling > hiring or letting out > [noun]
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letting1425
lettage1530
fee-farming1549
renting1552
location1581
loan1601
rental1800
let1839
letment-
1581 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1581/10/22 [That no minister] mak or sett ony fewis, takis, rentallis..of the renttis of his benefice to the prejudice of his successoure..quhairuntill, in cais he failye, his sett and locatioun to be decernit null.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §29 If the partie commaunded haue anything for his paine, it is not then properly commaundement, but Location and Conduction.
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. iii. §6. 40 In buying, selling, borrowing, lending, location, and conduction, and other acts whatsoever belonging to Contractors.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. x. §70 155 Location and Conduction is a Contract whereby hyre is given for the fruits, use, or work of persons or things.
a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. iii. §14 450 Location is that contract, in which a hire is agreed upon, for the use of any moveable subject, or for the work or service of persons.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. iv. 136 Part of the great subject, location, or letting and taking to hire.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iii. 232 It is also doubtful if there be location and conduction when I have given you the use of a thing, receiving from you the use of something else in return.
1927 W. M. Gloag & R. C. Henderson Introd. Law Scotl. 243 Hiring is the location of moveable property.
b. contract of location n. a contract by which the use of a property or possession is agreed to be given for hire, or by which a person agrees to give his or her services for hire.
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society > law > legal obligation > contract > [noun] > other contracts
lease1483
mutuum1486
pre-contract1563
surcontract1584
nudum pactum1603
contract of location1604
subcontract1660
mandate1781
personal contract1831
protocol1842
severable contract1848
employment contract1891
standard form contract1908
recording contract1922
record contract1924
recording deal1943
record deal1945
EULA1992
1604 G. Downame Lect. XV Psalme 160 For in such things, contrarie to the contract of Location, the propertie with the vse is transferred to the borrower, and hee becommeth owner for the time thereof.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xix. §1 379 A Tack of it self is no more then a personal Contract of Location, whereby Land or any other thing having profite, or fruit, is set to the Tacks-man for enjoying the fruit or profite thereof, for a hyre, which is called the Tack-duty.
1782 W. Ross Disc. Removing of Tenants 99 You have heard, that as, in the Roman contract of location, so in the Scottish lease, the failure in payment of two consecutive years rent voided the contract.
1860 Aberdeen Jrnl. 28 Mar. The mere ordinary use of the word ‘let’ is not sufficient of itself to constitute a contract of location.
1932 in Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 26 309 If the land or building, rented, constructed or purchased by a foreign missionary in the interior of China, is used to the profit of any merchant, the authorities shall forbid the enterprise and revoke the contract of location.
1999 Lloyd's Maritime & Commerc. Law Q. iv. 584 Contracts of location, or hire play an increasingly important role in commercial life.
3.
a. The particular place or position occupied by a person or thing; precise situation.In early use chiefly in medical contexts.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun]
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positure1600
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seat1607
situs1629
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ubiety1645
locus1648
locality1656
topography1658
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lie1697
spot1769
locus standi1809
possie1916
ubicity1922
1592 N. Gyer Eng. Phlebotomy 55 It seemeth that Galen respected not the location of grieued members, according to this rectitude... Whereas the hand being ill affected, he scarrified Crura the thighs, and one of the thighs ill affected he scarrified the other thigh that was well.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 32 b/1 When the recurved muscles revert to there accustomede locationes.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. vii. 29 The Middle Points are those that haue their location in or neere to the Center of the Escocheon.
1632 tr. G. Bruele Praxis Medicinæ 1 The head is more tormented with paine then any other part of the body; which is partly caused by the location of the head.
1682 N. Grew Of Mixture i. iii. §10 in Anat. Plants 226 Both the Conjugation, Proportion, and Location of Letters is varied in every Word.
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision 130 The Location of Visible Objects is determin'd only, by the Distance they bear from one another.
1883 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric xiii. 173 Definite location in space is necessary for an intelligence having varied experience of a world of objects in space.
1883 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church II. xii. lxxxiii. 709 He knows the location of the praetorium.
1948 Factory Managem. & Maintenance Sept. 127/2 ‘Hash marks’ are placed in conspicuous locations on all machines and equipment.
2013 S. M. Nadler Philosopher, Priest, & Painter ii. 28 To protect his privacy throughout these changes of address, he asked Mersenne not to reveal his location to anyone.
b. Computing. A position or address in memory.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > memory > position of
location1946
1946 J. W. Mauchly in M. Campbell-Kelly & M. R. Williams Moore School Lect. (1985) 455 The question is how many locations or addresses in the internal memory are to be included in the standard instruction?
1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 15 Location 1001 contains the instruction place mq contents in location 15000; the computer thus stores zeros in location 15000.
1992 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Sept. 86/2 A header structure whose fields contain the location of the symbol table, the location of the string table, and the number of symbols.
2008 Personal Computer World Sept. 12/1 A form of memory called floating body cell (FBC), which requires only one transistor per location.
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a. North American. The surveying or demarcation of a settlement, tract of land, mining claim, etc. Also: the surveying and laying out of a road or railway. Now historical.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking out > [noun]
location1714
marking-out1726
1714 Laws Province Pennsilvania 70 Since the first Location of Lands in this Province, the Quit-Rents reserved upon the several Grants..have been very irregularly and uncertainly collected.
1718 in New Jersey Archives (1882) IV. 379 Lands..laid out on Passaiak by name, and Scituate on ye same Passaiak by an actual Survey or location.
1770 G. Washington Let. 15 Apr. in Writings (1889) II. 275 Sandy Creek (one of the places allotted for the location of our grant).
1795 J. Sullivan Hist. Maine 195 There was no regularity in the locations of the lands.
1840 Rep. Select Comm. Board of Public Wks. 6 in Rep. Senate & House of Representatives Illinois II The location of roads has..been made in accordance with the reports and recommendations of the principal engineer of the district.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 152 Location, the act of fixing the boundaries of a mining claim, according to law.
1899 Treat. Metal Mining (Internat. Corr. Schools, Scranton Pa.) I. §1270 The law requires that 10 feet of the vein shall be exposed before the location of the claim is undertaken by the prospector.
1962 Southwestern Hist. Q. 66 221 Information on the ‘location’ or survey of each warrant, including the amount of land surveyed.
b. Chiefly North American. A tract of land marked out or surveyed; spec. an area surveyed and allocated for the mining of minerals; a mining claim. Now chiefly historical.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a piece of land > a claim
location1847
claim1863
1772 Rep. Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations 92 All the king's subjects..who have made locations and settlements on the lands..live there, without any degree of order, law, or government.
1798 I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont 14 A few families settled..on locations from and under the Province of Massachusetts.
1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxxvi. 173 Above Conway is Bartlett, the last town on the east side of the mountains, the lands above being at present only called locations.
1847 Rep. Acting Secretary Treasury 30 Sept. in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: Senate Executive Doc. 2) II 213 The acting superintendent propounded..a number of interrogatories, with a view of obtaining reports as to the condition of the mining operations, and subsequently received reports from 20 locations.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 36 They tell a story of a gang of experienced woodmen sent to a location on this stream, who were thus lost in the wilderness of lakes.
1904 Labour Gaz. May 1126/2 Surveyors' reports..were found ‘lamentably inaccurate’, with disastrous results for many settlers, who had relied on them for their information relating to locations.
1992 D. J. Krause Making of Mining District viii. 200 The company had acquired several mining locations on the Keweenaw.
5.
a. An area, region, etc., in which something takes place or is situated; a setting. Frequently with qualifying adjective indicating the type of place.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun]
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settlea900
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houseOE
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wonningc1000
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inhabitance1482
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situation?1615
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inhabitancy1853
habitat1854
occupancy1864
nivas1914
downsetting1927
1795 R. Cumberland Henry IV. xi. ii. 114 I have mark'd in my walks about this place, a location, as I think, peculiarly apposite; and I have work'd upon a plan, (for architecture has been my favourite study) which I shall be prepar'd to exhibit to Sir Roger Manstock.
1823 Christian Herald 6 Dec. 439 The seminary is situated in a remarkably healthy location.
1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. I. xi. 138 These were students of Schenectady College: would I like to see it? a beautiful location, not half a mile off.
1907 Northwest Poultry Jrnl. June 33/1 (advt.) An ideal location, large comfortable rooms, first-class restaurant and large kitchen for the accomodation of guests.
1950 W. Hillcourt Field Bk. Nature Activities 47 The best location for a nature trail is a park, a camp, a grove adjacent to the school grounds.
1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 5/4 The 14th-century manor house enjoys a very secluded rural location.
2007 Amer. Motorcyclist Aug. 65/1 Hancock is a beautiful location for this world class event.
b. Originally U.S. A place of settlement or residence.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > [noun]
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wanea1225
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address1855
yard1865
res1882
nivas1914
multifamily1952
1795 W. Beckford Let. July in R. Macaulay They went to Portugal (1946) 137 I have been extremely lucky in the choice of my location (a fine new word fresh from the mint of Mr. Cumberland) which is as dry, as healthy, and as gloriously cheerful, as the most classical spots in Arcadia.
1827 Examiner 261/2 [He] changes his character, costume, and location (as the Yankees say).
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. xvi. 251 They visited Windsor. Mr. Beck said that if he had such a location he should always live there.
1920 Burroughs Clearing House Dec. 16/1 Before he changed location I wrote him a letter.
2005 M. Poage Moving Survival Guide 105 To speed up the delivery process... If it's hard to differentiate the living room from the family room in the new location, put labels on these rooms.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun]
townOE
wick1086
farm1414
gainery1424
farmhold1471
room?a1513
farm place1526
colony1566
labouring1604
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1813 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1921) 3rd Ser. I. 35 I cannot sanction nor confirm some of the Locations you directed Mr Meehan to make.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxvi. 148 Importation succeeding importation until the distance of the locations required a fresh central farm to be instituted.
1830 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 2 ii. 29/2 They will expend thereon in permanent improvements, within two years from the date of the location order, a sum not less than the full value of the grant.
1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. vii. 246 A piece of land is obtained by a person who merely performs the location duties, and does nothing to his estate.
1863 M. Lemon Wait for End (1866) xiii. 162 She was continually the companion of her father in his rides about the location.
1891 J. Fenton Bush Life Tasmania v. 31 The possessor of a location order could select Crown land where he pleased, without any risk of competition.
1908 Jrnls. & Printed Papers Parl. Tasmania LIX. No. 27 2/1 (table) Applications for Grants of Land held under Location Orders as roots of Title.
7. South African.
a. Any of various areas of land granted to a party of British settlers on the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony; an individual farm or smallholding on this land. Cf. party n. 11b. Now historical.
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1820 G. Barker Jrnl. 17 Apr. in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. on Hist. Princ. (1996) at Location n. Mr Bailey's party left the Bay for their location.
1871 H. H. Dugmore Reminisc. Albany Settler 9 But now to return to the first arrival ‘on the location’. It was a forlorn-looking plight in which we found ourselves.
1936 Cambr. Hist. Brit. Empire VIII. 237 Ox-waggons were hired from farmers..to convey the settlers to the locations which had been allotted to them.
1970 Cape Times 7 Sept. When the Settlers arrived..they found themselves shepherded into various ‘locations’... They were..placed in position and told to stay put.
2003 J. Eve Literary Guide Eastern Cape 275 Thomas Pringle's Scottish party was granted land in the Baviaans River valley, far from the locations of their fellow settlers.
b. An area of land occupied by a particular population group, esp. one set aside for the use of indigenous peoples; a reserve. Now historical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun]
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district1712
section1785
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > reservation for indigenous people
reserve1667
Indian reserve1752
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Indian reservation1804
station1825
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native location1928
township1934
homeland1959
1833 G. Greig S. Afr. Almanac & Directory 191 The population consists of a mixture of Bastards and Hottentots, who are divided into about 60 parties, each of which has a distinct location allotted to it.
1846 Natal (Pietermaritzburg, S. Afr.) Witness 13 Mar. Presuming that it is the intention of Government to appoint them spots for permanent locations.., a land tax will be..reasonable.
1878 A. Aylward Transvaal of To-day (1881) ii. 20 They [sc. the natives] are allowed as much land as they want for their locations.
1948 O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 45 Bokwe did not seek a practice in the cities. He returned to the location he had known as a child.
1971 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 4 Sept. 5/1 Transkeians were against the establishment of locations in their territory.
2011 R. J. Houle Making Afr. Christianity i. 5 By the beginning of the 1850s, most Africans in Natal lived on locations under what has become known as the ‘Shepstone System’.
c. An urban or peri-urban area occupied predominantly by black South Africans. Cf. township n. 5c.During the apartheid era, locations were officially designated for non-white occupation.The term township is now usually preferred.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > area occupied by black people
negeri1823
Negrodom1847
location1880
black bottom1915
Bantustan1949
kasi1988
1880 E. F. Sandeman Eight Months in Ox-waggon iv. 31 Pieces of ground are set apart outside the town, on which they [sc. Kaffirs] may either build their own kralls, or occupy a sort of barrack... These bits of land..are termed the Kaffir Locations.
1926 O. Schreiner From Man to Man ii. ix. 316 A Kaffir servant might be seen hurrying from the Location to the town.
1967 J. G. Davis Hold my Hand I'm Dying xxi. 211 There were lots of blacks coming into town from the locations on bicycles to work.
1977 A. Roscoe Uhuru's Fire 233 Coloured locations are generally more salubrious than the infamous ghettoes of Orlando, Soweto and Marabastad.
2013 J. Greig & M. Greig Tony Greig (Electronic ed.) Our maids walked thirty minutes each day from the Location to our house on Livingstone Road.
8. Originally U.S. An actual place or natural setting in which a film or broadcast is made, as distinct from a studio set. Sometimes without article. Cf. on location at Phrases 2 .
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > place for filming
studio1909
location1914
lot1915
film set1916
sound stage1931
floor1937
1914 Scribner's Mag. Mar. 276/1 It was his duty..to pick out ‘locations’, as are called the scenes and backgrounds of a moving-picture play.
1918 H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made 120 The director..has but to turn through the photographs instead of having to go out himself and spend hours looking up suitable locations.
1928 ‘I. Hay’ Poor Gentleman iii. 42 They're converting the whole place into what is called a Location, where they can stage dramas of English country life.
1983 A. Silver & E. Ward Film Director's Team (1988) ii. 28 The travel time spent riding in a company vehicle to location is considered work time.
2006 U.S. News & World Rep. 2 Oct. 56/1 A quirky, artsy atmosphere fed by the presence of the University of North Carolina–Wilmington and its role as a frequent Hollywood film location.
9. In Kenya: an administrative district forming a subdivision of a division (cf. division n. 10b).
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1919 Official Gaz. E. Afr. Protectorate 5 Nov. 808 Certificate Issued Under the Native Registration Ordinance, 1915... Name... Father's name... District... Tribe... Location... Sub-Location.
2019 Sunday Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 18 Aug. The..family that are the majority in Sarman Location are against the idea of being under a chief from the minority..sub-clan... They alleged that the new chief-to-be is not a resident of their location and is being imposed on them by government officials.
Phrases
P1. Australian. the limits (also boundaries, bounds) of location: the frontier of settlement; spec. the boundaries delimiting those parts of an Australian Colony within which land was available for ownership and settlement. Now historical.
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1837 Minutes of Evid. Rep. Select Comm. Transportation 190 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 518) XIX. 1 They take their sheep establishments not beyond the limits of the colony, but beyond the limits of location.
1839 in Kerr's Melbourne Almanac (1841) 24 Such land, whenever it may be deemed expedient to extend the boundaries of location, will be liable to be put up to competition at public auction.
1862 E. Strickland Austral. Pastor 65 Albury is situated far beyond what are called ‘the bounds of location’ in the squatting district of the Murrumbidgee.
1980 P. Freeman Woolshed 48 The ‘Limits of Location’, that had contained the young colony of New South Wales until the 1830s were finally breached by the early explorers.
2010 T. Keneally Great Shame i. iii. 44 He had begun putting livestock and convict labourers on land well to the south of Goulburn, beyond the Limits of Location.
P2. on location: (with reference to films, broadcasts, etc.) in an actual place or natural setting, as distinct from in a studio; also attributive.
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1917 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. x. 4/3 Whenever the diva goes ‘on location’ she takes with her a motor dressing room in which are all the comforts of home and also a telephone.
1935 Time 8 July 32/3 The fault most likely to creep into pictures made on location comes from their producers' natural reluctance to throw away bits of local color even when these impede their story.
1951 Lubbock (Texas) Evening Jrnl. 20 Dec. i. 12/1 (advt.) Easy portability permits ‘on location’ recording and playback.
1971 Daily Tel. 12 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 51/1 On location in Yugoslavia and at Pinewood Studios I talked to four people deeply involved in the filming of Fiddler on the Roof.
1981 J. Monaco How to read Film (rev. ed.) ii. 106 On-location recording has become the rule rather than the exception.
1996 Daily Mirror 12 June (L!ve TV Special Suppl.) 3/1 They will be presenting a £300,000 docudrama shot on location in New York and Los Angeles.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (in sense 8).
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1917 Motion Picture Classic July 75/2 (advt.) ‘Picture-making in the Tall Uncut,’ by Frank W. Salley—another of those delightful location stories.
1918 H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made v. 120 If an exterior is chosen for the first scenes it has been selected in advance by the ‘location man’ and the director.
1948 Hollywood Q. 3 444/1 A full-length documentary film..on the Hedgerow Theater, involving difficult location shooting.
1970 K. Tynan Let. 23 Nov. (1994) vii. 480 I shall be following the making of the film from the location work..to the studio sequences.
1990 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News 29 July e5/1 13 weeks of location filming in North Carolina starting later this month.
2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 332 Bacchan watches the location shots Vinod has taken in Kashmir.
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location-based adj. designating a software application which identifies the physical location of a computer, mobile phone, etc., and uses this to help determine how it responds to input from the user; relating to or involving such an application.
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1994 1st Workshop Mobile Computing Syst. & Applic. 74/1 Location based services may be provided by a centralized server in the network that responds to different users differently, depending on their current location.
2001 Times 12 May 47/2 Pollen has developed Mamjam, an SMS text-messaging service for location-based interactive chatting between mobile phone users.
2009 Financial Times 17 Feb. 21/5 Asus..recently tied up with US navigation devices maker Garmin to launch phones focusing on location-based applications.
location scout n. originally U.S. (a) a person sent out by a film or television company to look for suitable locations for a film, programme, etc.; (b) an act of visiting and assessing the suitability of potential locations for a film, programme, etc.
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1918 Sat. Evening Post 19 Oct. 103/2 I hope I have not given the impression that the life of the location scouts is one of perpetual stealing.
1939 Sunday Reg. (Beckley, W. Va.) 25 June 12/1 Undersea photography [was to be] in the clearest water that could be located... [A] location scout whispered Silver Springs, Fla., was the place.
1987 D. Mamet House of Games p. ix I would go from a costume fitting to a storyboard conference, to a location scout.
1991 Interview Sept. 98/2 I've been in my share of prisons on location scouts.
2011 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. 33/1 The location scout turned up for a look round. Right, he said, we're on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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