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placenoun the area or space occupied by or intended for somethingthe place chosen for the picnic there's the place where I left my umbrella emplacement, locale, locality, location, locus, point, position, site, spot, venue, where sceneprecinct, region, section, sectorhere, there a building, room, or suite of rooms occupied by a service businesswe're going to our favorite place to eat establishment, joint, parlor, salon spot, stationfacility, installationclub, houseden, dive, hole an assignment at which one regularly works for paya friend got her a place in a department store's clothing department appointment, berth, billet, capacity, connection, function, job, position, post, situation business, employ, employment, occupation, professionworkoffice, spotcalling, pursuit, trade, vocationline, racketengagement, giglivelihood, livingcareer, lifework, practice(also practise)duty, mission, posting, service, task avocationjoblessness, unemployment an extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thinglet's make a place around our campfire for the newest member of our group elbow room, room, space, way capacity, compass, range, scopeberth, clearance, freedom, latitude, leeway, play the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing existsknew his place in the organization business, capacity, function, job, part, position, purpose, role(also rôle), task, work affair, concern, hand, involvement, participationniche, office, post, situationcalling, occupation, pursuit, vocationactivity, assignment, charge, commission, duty, employ, mission, responsibility, service, use the place where one livesthey have a nice little place in the country abode, diggings, domicile, dwelling, fireside, habitation, hearth, hearthstone, home, house, lodging, pad, quarters, residence, roof accommodations, housing, nest, residency, shelterbungalow, cabin, casita, chalet, cottageduplex, ranch, ranch house, saltbox, semi(chiefly British), split level, townhome, town house, tract house, triplexapartment, apartment house, condo, condominium, flat, tenement, tenement house, walk-uppenthouse, salon, suitebarracks, billet, boardinghouse, dorm, dormitory, flophouse, lodging house, lodgment(or lodgement), room(s), rooming housecastle, château, countryseat, estate, hall, manor, manor house, mansion, McMansion, palace, villafarmhouse, grange, hacienda, homesteaddouble-wide, houseboat, house trailer, mobile home, motor home, recreational vehicle, RV, trailerhermitage, manse, parsonage, rectory, vicaragehooch(or hootch, slang), hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangementcame in fourth place in the marathon degree, echelon, footing, level, position, rank, ranking, reach(es), rung, situation, standing, station, status, stratum condition, estate, order, walkcapacity, functionrating a situation or activity for which a person or thing is best suitedwith skills largely limited to those honed from endless hours of video games, he was having a hard time finding a place in the business world groove, niche, slot appointment, berth, billet, capacity, function, job, position, postrank, standing, station, statusforte, long suit, métier(also metier), speciality, specialty, strong suit, thing an individual part of a process, series, or rankingwell, in the first place, you shouldn't even be here chapter, cut, degree, grade, inch, notch, peg, phase, point, stage, step angle, aspect, facet, sideamount, measure, planedecrement, increment placeverbto arrange something in a certain spot or positionhe carefully placed the flowers in a vase depose, deposit, dispose, emplace, fix, lay, position, put, set, set up, situate, stick move, rearrange, reorder, shiftorientestablish, locate, plant, settleclap, flop, plank, plop, plump, plunk(or plonk), plunk down, slapensconce, nicheassemble, collectcarryberth, parkaffix, anchor, lock, lodge, wedgearray, lay out, line up, queue, rankset down relocate, remove, takebanishdislodge, displace, replace, supersede, supplant to arrange or assign according to typeI'd place those cyclists in the advanced group for the training ride assort, break down, categorize, class, classify, codify, compartment, compartmentalize, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, peg, range, rank, relegate, separate, sort, type array, dispose, draw up, marshal(also marshall), order, organize, systematizealphabetize, catalog(or catalogue), file, index, list, referpigeonhole, shelveidentify, recognizecull, screen, set, sieve, sift, winnowclump, cluster, colligaterecategorize, reclassify, regroupsubcategorize confuse, disarrange, jumble, lump, mix (up), scramblemisclassify, missort, mistype to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurementI'd place that as roughly the third largest house in the neighborhood calculate, call, conjecture, estimate, figure, gauge(also gage), guess, judge, make, put, reckon, suppose conclude, deduce, extrapolate, gather, infer, reason, understand calibrate, measure, scalecompute, work out to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classesplaced second in the competition be, grade, rank, rate, stand seedcountcategorize, class, classify, codify, compartmentalize, group, separate, set, sortinstall, instate to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or dutyplaced the recent college grad in the company's research and development division appoint, assign, attach, commission, constitute, designate, detail, name, nominate authorize, delegate, depute, deputizeanoint, consecrate, create, inaugurate, induct, install, instate, institute, invest, make, ordaincrown, enthrone, thronechoose, destine, draft, elect, handpick, select, single (out), vote (in) discharge, dismiss, expel, fire blackball, depose, dethrone, displace, eject, evict, oust, overthrow, remove, throw out, uncrown, unmake, unseat to present or bring forward for discussiononce again the issue of recurrent vandalism at the high school was placed before the town council bring up, broach, introduce, moot, raise allude (to), cite, mention, name, refer (to)offer, propose, suggestair, express, speak (of), talk (about), vent, ventilateinterject, interruptdebate, discuss, thrash (out or over) censor, hush (up), quiet, silence, suppress to provide with a paying jobmost of the trainees at the TV station are placed in clerical positions assume, employ, engage, fee(chiefly Scottish), hire, lay on(chiefly British), pay, recruit, retain, sign (up or on), take on reemploy, reengage, rehireapprentice, contract, job, partner, subcontractenlistadvance, promote, upgradekeep (on)headhunt, scout ax(or axe), can, discharge, dismiss, fire, sack furlough, lay off, lock out in the 13th century |