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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lo•ca•tion /loʊˈkeɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a place or situation occupied:a house in a fine location.
- a place of activity or residence:This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- Show Businessa site outside a movie studio used for filming.
Idioms- Idioms, Show Business on location, engaged in filming at a place away from the studio, esp. one that is or is like the setting of the screenplay.
See -loc-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lo•ca•tion (lō kā′shən),USA pronunciation n. - a place of settlement, activity, or residence:This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- a place or situation occupied:a house in a fine location.
- a tract of land of designated situation or limits:a mining location.
- Show Business[Motion Pictures.]a place outside of the studio that is used for filming a movie, scene, etc.
- Computingany position on a register or memory device capable of storing one machine word.
- the act of locating;
state of being located. - Law[Civil Law.]a letting or renting.
- Cinema, Idioms on location, [Motion Pictures.]engaged in filming at a place away from the studio, esp. one that is or is like the setting of the screenplay:on location in Rome.
- Latin locātiōn- (stem of locātiō) a placing. See locate, -ion
- 1585–95
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: location /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/ n - a site or position; situation
- the act or process of locating or the state of being located
- a place outside a studio where filming is done: shot on location
- (in South Africa) a Black African or Coloured township, usually located near a small town
See also township - (formerly) an African tribal reserve
- a position in a memory capable of holding a unit of information, such as a word, and identified by its address
- the letting out on hire of a chattel or of personal services
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin locātiō, from locāre to place |