English Dictionary

location

/loʊˈkeɪʃən/

noun

A particular point or place in physical space. / An act of locating. / (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township. / (law) A leasing on rent.

The Eiffel Tower is a famous location in Paris.

意味（1）

A particular point or place in physical space.

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.

意味（2）

An act of locating.

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.

意味（3）

(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]

意味（4）

(law) A leasing on rent.

意味（5）

(law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

意味（6）

(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

意味（7）

(Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.