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placements

placements is the plural of placement.

Meaning of placement

Noun

placement (countable and uncountable, plural placements)

  1. The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
  2. A location or position.
    • It seems to me that the placement of that poster could be better.
  3. The act of matching a person with a job.
    • The agency does not guarantee placement, but they work on commission.
  4. (UK) A temporary posting of a person to a particular workplace to enable them to gain work experience.
    • During my first placement on Enabling Works on the Curzon Street Station site, I was able to visit the site on many occasions, which allowed me to gain a greater appreciation of the work that goes into a project of this scale.2021 May 19, Paul Stephen, “Our railway in RAIL's next 40 years: Amy McAllister”, in RAIL, number 931, page 36
  5. The zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.

Phrases with placements

Questions about placements

What is placements the plural of?
Placements is the plural of placement.

Words near placements in the dictionary

  1. placemats
  2. placemen
  3. placement
  4. placement test
  5. placement tests
  6. placements
  7. placemonger
  8. placemongering
  9. placemongers
  10. placename
  11. placenames

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Adapted from Wiktionary: placements (page history and authors); placement (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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