placementplace‧ment /ˈpleɪsmənt/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable] 
The centre provides a job placement service.placement of the placement of children in foster homes They lived on campus, but this was just a temporary placement.2British English a job, usually as part of a course of study, which gives you experience of a particular type of workon placement Students are sent out on placement for training. a forty-five day placement in a factory3when something is placed somewhere or when you decide where something should goplacement of the placement of fire hydrants along the city’s streets
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- job placement services
- The placement of the buttons and knobs in the car is well thought out.
- And so John was sent to his first placement, Boys' Ranch.
- Bankers dislike the idea of dribbling out the shares throughout the year or holding lots of small placements.
- City records show that jailers made three attempts to find other placements, and then the matter apparently was forgotten.
- Many courses require that some kind of placement project is undertaken by the student.
- Next year, they plan to expand the placement of their ads to more bars and restaurants in the Baltimore community.
- The Salomon compensation game, like the job placement game for trainees, has a political wild card in it.
- Volume three of the DoH guidance, on family placements, set outs how local authorities should plan and review.
- We particularly need to improve the placement of our publicity material in tourist centres, including the development of hotel packs.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The centre provides a job placement service.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIESCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
The centre provides a job placement service.· Alternatively, it may be because particular educational placements have very limited opportunities and few resources for this kind of activity.
· Most of the young people had suffered several foster placement breakdowns, and some had been in trouble with the law.· It performs important functions in times of crisis, both when children enter care and when foster placements break down.· Long-term foster placements may turn into defacto or, eventually, legal adoptions.· They wanted to continue the foster placement.· However, when a particularly successful foster placement led to the girl's adoption the girl changed considerably.
· Students who do not undertake the period of industrial placement complete the degree in three years.· Through contacts made during their industrial placement, many graduates subsequently obtain permanent employment.· Many graduates and diplomates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement.· Colleges were experiencing great difficulty in finding industrial placements for students.· Students who undertake the four-year sandwich course spend the third year in industrial placement.· The course is of three years' duration, including an industrial placement year.
· Eurobonds may either be public issues or private placements - issues sold direct to investors and not traded.· The group proposed to sell the other third in a private placement.· Other private placements are designed mainly for issuers, often to exploit tax loopholes.· On July 20, 1999 Verio completed the private placement of $ 360 million of convertible preferred stock.· Low liquidity for publicly issued eurobonds is one feature underlying development of international private placements.· Employment opportunities should be better in private placement firms than in State job service centers.· The private placement industry is competitive, so counselors feel pressed to give their client companies the best service.
NOUN· For some students also specialising in Business Studies, there is the possibility of a job placement in commerce or industry.· The Salomon compensation game, like the job placement game for trainees, has a political wild card in it.· He presided over the job placement blackboard beside the trading floor.· They set up job placement programs and mentoring initiatives for young men and women.
· What a sweet deal that is-the stars get to look caring in exchange for prime time product placement.· Mine was to be a psyche available for product placement - that was his intention.· It also makes good economic sense. Product placement deals in movies cost an estimated 10 per 1, 000 exposures.· The Center for the Study of Commercialism considers product placement a deceitful form of advertising.
· The teacher placement organiser has a varied role within the partnership.· The vision must be of a multi-lateral teacher placement programme between all community countries.· Esso's links extend to teacher placements and pupil visits.· In return for the teacher placement organiser's involvement there is full support from the rest of the partnership team.· Being part of the partnership therefore gives the teacher placement organiser greater credibility.· In Mid Glamorgan the teacher placement organiser is able to use the existing communication network to schools and business.· In addition publications produced by the partnership, such as its newspaper, include articles on teacher placements.· The Partnership has strong links with other organisations and the teacher placement organiser is able to take advantage of this.
· What opportunity should be open to full-tome students in terms of work placement or experience?· The exchanges involved in-college tuition and work placements with local companies.· The placements will be of four weeks duration: part college, part work placement.· Students are invited to undertake a programme combining, concurrently, the traditional teaching practice with a social work placement.· All the students are undertaking work placements in local businesses one day a week for 12 weeks.· The final-year project is based on some aspect of the student's work placement.· At the end of my work placement, I teamed up with two other volunteers for a three week holiday.
VERB· The Enterprise Centre will find suitable placements or approve students' own choice.· City records show that jailers made three attempts to find other placements, and then the matter apparently was forgotten.· It was found that decisions about placements were often long delayed while efforts were made to solve the family's problems.· Colleges were experiencing great difficulty in finding industrial placements for students.
· Spending more on training and placement normally saves money on welfare grants.· But when times get tight, states cut their training and placement accounts.· The governor wants more job training and placement and less aid to those who refuse to work.
WORD FAMILYnounplaceplacementplacingdisplacementreplacementverbplacedisplacemisplacereplaceadjectivedisplacedmisplacedreplaceable
1the act of finding a place for someone to live or work: The centre provides a job placement service.placement of the placement of children in foster homes They lived on campus, but this was just a temporary placement.2British English a job, usually as part of a course of study, which gives you experience of a particular type of workon placement Students are sent out on placement for training. a forty-five day placement in a factory3when something is placed somewhere or when you decide where something should goplacement of the placement of fire hydrants along the city’s streets