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- DictionaryLo·cate/ˈlōˌkāt/
verb
- 1. discover the exact place or position of: "engineers were working to locate the fault" Similar finddiscoverpinpointdetecttrack downrun to earthunearthhit oncome acrossrevealbring to lightsniff outsmoke outsearch outferret outturn upuncovercome up withlay one's hands onpin downlight onstumble across/onchance oninformal:put one's finger on
- ▪ situate in a particular place: "these popular apartments are centrally located" Similar situatesitepositionplacebaseputbuildestablishfoundfixstationinstalllodgesetsettleseat
- ▪ place within a particular context: "they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation"
- ▪ establish oneself or one's business in a specified place: "his marketing strategy has been to locate in small towns"
Word Origin early 16th century: from Latin locat- ‘placed’, from the verb locare, from locus ‘place’. The original sense was as a legal term meaning ‘let out on hire’, later (late 16th century) ‘assign to a particular place’, then (particularly in North American usage) ‘establish in a place’. The sense ‘discover the exact position of’ dates from the late 19th century.
Derivatives
- 1. locatable adjective
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