# location
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate +‎ -ion.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

location (plural locations)
* A particular point or place in physical space.
** 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68: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 the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
* An act of locating.
** 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 :
    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.
* (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
** 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, page 188:It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]
* (law) A leasing on rent.
* (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
* (law, 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
* (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

#### Synonyms

* (a place): place

#### Derived terms

* bilocation
* central location test
* co-location
* cytolocation
* delocation
* echolocation
* electrolocation
* elocation
* emergency location transmitter
* emergency location transponder
* geolocation
* immunolocation
* interlocation
* intralocation
* location-agnostic
* location arithmetic
* locationism
* locationist
* location map
* macrolocation
* measure of location
* micro-location
* microlocation
* mislocation
* multilocation
* on location
* personal location beacon
* personal location radiobeacon
* photolocation
* radiolocation
* relocation
* translocation

#### Related terms

* local
* locale
* localize
* locate
* locational
* locative
* locator

#### Descendants

* → German: Location

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ a. 1768, John Erskine of Carnock, An Institute of the Law of Scotland
* ↑ John Bouvier (1839) “LOCATION”, in A Law Dictionary, […], volumes II (L–Z), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, […], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, […], →OCLC.

### Further reading

* “location”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “location”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “location”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* colation, coontail

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locātiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

location f (plural locations)
* renting, rental
* rent
* rented accommodation
** 2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:L’article indique que j’ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j’étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.The article suggests that I ‘abused favourable prices in the City of Paris’ with regard to the intermediary housing of which I was a tenant. I wish to clarify that this accommodation had been allocated under normal, regular conditions in 2001, six years before I was elected Deputy.
* hire (of a car etc.)
* booking, reservation

#### Usage notes

* A false friend of the English location, whose French equivalents include endroit, lieu, and emplacement.

#### Related terms

* lieu
* locatif
* louer
* loyer

#### See also

* établissement

### Further reading

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