locations

Noun

location (plural locations)

1. A particular point or place in physical space.
   • The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither...2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
2. An act of locating.
   • The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207...
3. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
   • It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, page 188
4. A leasing on rent.
5. (Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
6. (US) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc

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