Word of the Day:
location
What It Means
A particular point or place in physical space.
An act of locating.
An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
Location in Context
“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...”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Source and license
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