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placesnounpl. of place the area or space occupied by or intended for somethingthe place chosen for the picnic there's the place where I left my umbrella emplacements, locales, localities, locations, loci, points, positions, sites, spots, venues, wheres scenesprecincts, regions, sections, sectorsheres, theres a building, room, or suite of rooms occupied by a service businesswe're going to our favorite place to eat establishments, joints, parlors, salons spots, stationsfacilities, installationsclubs, housesdens, dives, holes an assignment at which one regularly works for paya friend got her a place in a department store's clothing department appointments, berths, billets, capacities, connections, functions, jobs, positions, posts, situations businesses, employments, employs, occupations, professionsworksoffices, spotscallings, pursuits, trades, vocationslines, racketsengagements, gigslivelihoods, livingscareers, lifeworks, practices(also practises)duties, missions, postings, services, tasks avocationsunemployments the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing existsknew his place in the organization businesses, capacities, functions, jobs, parts, positions, purposes, roles(also rôles), tasks, works affairs, concerns, hands, involvements, participationsniches, offices, posts, situationscallings, occupations, pursuits, vocationsactivities, assignments, charges, commissions, duties, employs, missions, responsibilities, services, uses the place where one livesthey have a nice little place in the country abodes, diggings, domiciles, dwellings, firesides, habitations, hearths, hearthstones, homes, houses, lodgings, pads, quarters, residences, roofs accommodations, housings, nests, residencies, sheltersbungalows, cabins, casitas, chalets, cottagesduplexes, ranches, ranch houses, saltboxes, semis(chiefly British), split levels, townhomes, town houses, tract houses, triplexesapartment houses, apartments, condominiums(also condominia), condos, flats, tenement houses, tenements, walk-upspenthouses, salons, suitesbarracks, billets, boardinghouses, dormitories, dorms, flophouses, lodging houses, lodgments(or lodgements), rooming houses, roomscastles, châteaus(or châteaux), countryseats, estates, halls, manor houses, manors, mansions, McMansions, palaces, villasfarmhouses, granges, haciendas, homesteadsdouble-wides, houseboats, house trailers, mobile homes, motor homes, recreational vehicles, RVs, trailershermitages, manses, parsonages, rectories, vicarageshooches(or hootches, slang), hovels, hutches, huts, shacks, shanties the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangementcame in fourth place in the marathon degrees, echelons, footings, levels, positions, rankings, ranks, reaches, rungs, situations, standings, stations, statuses, strata conditions, estates, orders, walkscapacities, functionsratings 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 grooves, niches, slots appointments, berths, billets, capacities, functions, jobs, positions, postsranks, standings, stations, statusesfortes, long suits, métiers(also metiers), specialities, specialties, strong suits, things an individual part of a process, series, or rankingwell, in the first place, you shouldn't even be here chapters, cuts, degrees, grades, inches, notches, pegs, phases, points, stages, steps angles, aspects, facets, sidesamounts, measures, planesdecrements, increments placesverbpresent tense third-person singular of placeto arrange something in a certain spot or positionhe carefully placed the flowers in a vase deposes, deposits, disposes, emplaces, fixes, lays, positions, puts, sets, sets up, situates, sticks moves, rearranges, reorders, shiftsorientsestablishes, locates, plants, settlesclaps, flops, planks, plops, plumps, plunks(or plonks), plunks down, slapsensconces, nichesassembles, collectscarriesberths, parksaffixes, anchors, locks, lodges, wedgesarrays, lays out, lines up, queues, rankssets down relocates, removes, takesbanishesdislodges, displaces, replaces, supersedes, supplants to arrange or assign according to typeI'd place those cyclists in the advanced group for the training ride assorts, breaks down, categorizes, classes, classifies, codifies, compartmentalizes, compartments, digests, distinguishes, distributes, grades, groups, pegs, ranges, ranks, relegates, separates, sorts, types arrays, disposes, draws up, marshals(also marshalls), orders, organizes, systematizesalphabetizes, catalogs(or catalogues), files, indexes, lists, referspigeonholes, shelvesidentifies, recognizesculls, screens, sets, sieves, sifts, winnowsclumps, clusters, colligatesrecategorizes, reclassifies, regroupssubcategorizes confuses, disarranges, jumbles, lumps, mixes (up), scramblesmisclassifies, missorts, mistypes 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 calculates, calls, conjectures, estimates, figures, gauges(also gages), guesses, judges, makes, puts, reckons, supposes concludes, deduces, extrapolates, gathers, infers, reasons, understands calibrates, measures, scalescomputes, works out to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classesplaced second in the competition grades, is, ranks, rates, stands seedscountscategorizes, classes, classifies, codifies, compartmentalizes, groups, separates, sets, sortsinstalls, instates 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 appoints, assigns, attaches, commissions, constitutes, designates, details, names, nominates authorizes, delegates, deputes, deputizesanoints, consecrates, creates, inaugurates, inducts, installs, instates, institutes, invests, makes, ordainscrowns, enthrones, throneschooses, destines, drafts, elects, handpicks, selects, singles (out), votes (in) discharges, dismisses, expels, fires blackballs, deposes, dethrones, displaces, ejects, evicts, ousts, overthrows, removes, throws out, uncrowns, unmakes, unseats to present or bring forward for discussiononce again the issue of recurrent vandalism at the high school was placed before the town council brings up, broaches, introduces, moots, raises alludes (to), cites, mentions, names, refers (to)offers, proposes, suggestsairs, expresses, speaks (of), talks (about), ventilates, ventsinterjects, interruptsdebates, discusses, thrashes (out or over) censors, hushes (up), quiets, silences, suppresses to provide with a paying jobmost of the trainees at the TV station are placed in clerical positions assumes, employs, engages, fees(chiefly Scottish), hires, lays on(chiefly British), pays, recruits, retains, signs (up or on), takes on reemploys, reengages, rehiresapprentices, contracts, jobs, partners, subcontractsenlistsadvances, promotes, upgradeskeeps (on)headhunts, scouts axes, cans, discharges, dismisses, fires, sacks furloughs, lays off, locks out |