Dictionary Definition
placement
Noun
1 the spatial property of the way in which
something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the
placement of the chairs" [syn: arrangement]
2 contact established between applicants and
prospective employees; "the agency provided placement
services"
3 the act of putting something in a certain place
or location [syn: location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
- A location or
position.
- It seems to me that the placement of that post could be better.
- The act of matching a person with a job
- The agency does not guarantee placement, but they work on commission.
Translations
The act of placing or putting in place
- Finnish: sijoittaminen, sijoitus
- Hebrew:
A location or position
The act of matching a person with a job
- Finnish: työhönsijoitus
Extensive Definition
- Placement (EDA), an essential step in electronic design automation
- Placement exam, determines which class a student should take
- Favored placement, the practice of preferentially listing search engine results for given sites
- Job placement, a short time spent in a company to get work experience
- Private placement, a direct offering of securities to a limited number of sophisticated institutional investors
- Product placement, a promotional tactic used by marketers in which a real commercial product is used in fictional or non-fictional media
- Public placement, see Initial public offering
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abode,
accedence, accession, accounting for,
allocation, allotment, analysis, answerability, application, appointment, apportionment, area, arrangement, array, arraying, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment, assortment, attachment, attribution, bearings, bench mark, blame, cataloging, categorization, charge, classification, codification, collation, collocation, connection
with, constitution,
coronation, credit, culling, deployment, deposit, deposition, derivation from,
disposal, disposition, distribution, district, division, emplacement, employment, engagement, enthronement, etiology, filing, form, formation, formulation, gradation, grading, grouping, hiring, hole, honor, imputation, inauguration, indexing, induction, installation, installment, instatement, investiture, lading, latitude and longitude,
lieu, loading, locale, locality, localization, locating, location, locus, marshaling, order, ordering, organization, packing, palaetiology, pigeonholing, pinpoint, pinpointing, place, placing, point, position, positioning, posting, putting, ranging, ranking, rating, reference to, regimentation, region, reposition, responsibility, saddling, screening, selection, sifting, site, situation, situs, sorting, sorting out, spot, spotting, stationing, stead, storage, stowage, stratification, structuring, subdivision, subordination, syntax, tabulation, taking office,
taxonomy, triage, typology, whereabout, whereabouts