placement

From place +‎ -ment.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪsmənt/
• Rhymes: -eɪsmənt

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.
   • 2021 May 19, Paul Stephen, “Our railway in RAIL's next 40 years: Amy McAllister”, in RAIL, number 931, page 36:

     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.

5. (astrology) 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.

From placer +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /plas.mɑ̃/

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placement m (plural placements)

1. placement
2. investment
   • (Can we date this quote?), Entreprises Intuit Canada ULC, Logiciel d’impôt en ligne TurboImpôt 2022-2023 | Produire votre déclaration en ligne‎:

     Placements et biens locatifs

     Investments and rental property

• → Serbo-Croatian: plasman
• → Turkish: plasman

• “placement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.