location
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- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
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- 8
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Definition of location
7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A particular point or place in physical space.
“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.”
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noun
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A particular point or place in physical space.
“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.”
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An act of locating.
“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.”
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(South-Africa)An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
“It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]”
- A leasing on rent.
- (Scotland)A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- (US)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
- (Kenya)An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Words you can make from location
154 playable · top: ALTCOIN (9 pts)
Best play altcoin 9 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
14 words5-letter words
22 words4-letter words
61 words- CAIN 6 pts
- CALO 6 pts
- CANT 6 pts
- CIAO 6 pts
- CION 6 pts
- CLAN 6 pts
- CLIT 6 pts
- CLON 6 pts
- CLOT 6 pts
- COAL 6 pts
- COAT 6 pts
- COIL 6 pts
- COIN 6 pts
- COLA 6 pts
- COLT 6 pts
- CONI 6 pts
- COOL 6 pts
- COON 6 pts
- COOT 6 pts
- ICON 6 pts
- LAIC 6 pts
- LOCA 6 pts
- LOCI 6 pts
- LOCO 6 pts
- OTIC 6 pts
- TACO 6 pts
- TALC 6 pts
- TOCO 6 pts
- ALIT 4 pts
- ALTO 4 pts
- ANIL 4 pts
- ANTI 4 pts
- INTO 4 pts
- IOTA 4 pts
- LAIN 4 pts
- LATI 4 pts
- LINO 4 pts
- LINT 4 pts
- LION 4 pts
- LOAN 4 pts
- LOIN 4 pts
- LOON 4 pts
- LOOT 4 pts
- LOTA 4 pts
- LOTI 4 pts
- LOTO 4 pts
- NAIL 4 pts
- NAOI 4 pts
- NOIL 4 pts
- NOLO 4 pts
- NOTA 4 pts
- OLIO 4 pts
- ONTO 4 pts
- TAIL 4 pts
- TAIN 4 pts
- TALI 4 pts
- TIAN 4 pts
- TOIL 4 pts
- TOLA 4 pts
- TOOL 4 pts
- TOON 4 pts
3-letter words
38 words- ACT 5 pts
- CAL 5 pts
- CAN 5 pts
- CAT 5 pts
- COL 5 pts
- CON 5 pts
- COO 5 pts
- COT 5 pts
- LAC 5 pts
- LOC 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- TIC 5 pts
- AIL 3 pts
- AIN 3 pts
- AIT 3 pts
- ALT 3 pts
- ANI 3 pts
- ANT 3 pts
- ION 3 pts
- LAT 3 pts
- LIN 3 pts
- LIT 3 pts
- LOO 3 pts
- LOT 3 pts
- NIL 3 pts
- NIT 3 pts
- NOO 3 pts
- NOT 3 pts
- OAT 3 pts
- OIL 3 pts
- ONO 3 pts
- OOT 3 pts
- TAN 3 pts
- TAO 3 pts
- TIL 3 pts
- TIN 3 pts
- TON 3 pts
- TOO 3 pts
2-letter words
16 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
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