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in place

in place adjective: in an original position.

Adjective

in place (not comparable)

  1. In an original position.
  2. In a proper position.
  3. Established; in operation.

Adverb

in place (not comparable)

  1. Into a proper or intended position; into place.
    • The girders were carefully set in place.
    Antonyms:
    out of place
  2. Into a state of deployment or implementation.
    • New procedures were put in place.
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  3. (Canada, US) Without changing position.
    • They ran in place with full packs for an hour.
    • In the event of a radiation leak, shelter in place: do not attempt to find a community shelter.
  4. (obsolete) To a particular place; so as to be present or nearby.

in place meaning in Malayalam

in place in Malayalam

in position, in situ
സ്ഥാനത്ത്, യഥാസ്ഥാനത്ത്, അതാതിന്റെ സ്ഥാനത്ത്, ശരിക്ക്
set up, ready, all set
തയ്യാർ, സന്നദ്ധം, സജ്ജീകൃതം, സജ്ജ, സ്ഥാപിത, സ്ഥാപിതം

Antonyms of in place

Questions about in place

What does in place mean?
In place means in an original position.
What is in place in Malayalam?
In place in Malayalam is സ്ഥാനത്ത്, യഥാസ്ഥാനത്ത്, അതാതിന്റെ സ്ഥാനത്ത്. See In place meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is in place?
In place can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near in place in the dictionary

  1. in perspective
  2. in petto
  3. in phase
  4. in piety
  5. in pig
  6. in place
  7. in place of
  8. in places
  9. in plain sight
  10. in plain view
  11. in play

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in place (page history and authors); in place (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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