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best-placed

best-placed is the superlative form of well-placed.

Meaning of well-placed

Adjective

well-placed (comparative better-placed or more well-placed, superlative best-placed or most well-placed)

  1. Cleverly or judiciously positioned.
  2. Having an advantageous position.
    • "The Government is moving away from the idea of a new arm's length body to oversee the railway. It needs a much quicker solution that would involve giving Network Rail whole-industry planning and other extra responsibilities," a well-placed source told RAIL.2020 July 29, Paul Clifton, “Network Rail lined up to 'take control' of rail services”, in Rail, page 6

Questions about best-placed

What is best-placed the superlative form of?
Best-placed is the superlative form of well-placed.

Words near best-placed in the dictionary

  1. best-of
  2. best-off
  3. best-ofs
  4. best-organized
  5. best-paid
  6. best-placed
  7. best-preserved
  8. best-read
  9. best-run
  10. best-seller
  11. best-sellers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: best-placed (page history and authors); well-placed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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