Location Meaning
/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA particular point or place in physical space.
nounAn act of locating.
Sentence Examples
Our guide misinformed us about the location of the hotel.
How much more does it cost to return the rental car to another location?
A honeymoon in a secret location
CEFR Practice Quiz
The park is a good ____ for our picnic because it has tables and shade.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The real estate agent told us that the ____ of the property is its most important selling point today.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
"It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]"
— 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, page 188:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The park is a good ____ for our picnic because it has tables and shade.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The real estate agent told us that the ____ of the property is its most important selling point today.